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her friends and allies have scattered

Carrying the weight of the past on his shoulders

Of his inspiration behind the record

is chosen to sell it to potential colonists

Shantaram Cat Power her friends and allies haveShantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. In July 1980 he escaped from Victoria's maximum security prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia's most wanted men for what turned out to be the next ten