![]() ![]() ![]() To counterbalance, Roberts keeps the action moving and the narrative engaging. ![]() A reader unfamiliar with the earlier novel will need some time to get grounded. Roberts's cast of characters, while colorful, is also dauntingly large, and there's a sense of entering the story in the middle. He narrates his interactions with many larger-than-life street types in an energetic and often salty first person. Lin works as a passport forger for the local crime syndicate. Lin's working to forget Karla via a new girlfriend, Lisa, with bittersweet results. The dashing hero Lin (short for Lindsay), an Australian fugitive, is worldly, two-fisted, rides a motorcycle, has a social conscience, quotes great writers and, as the book opens, struggles bravely to get over his lost love, Karla, who's now married to wealthy power broker Ranjit. Set mostly in modern Bombay, Roberts's sequel to Shantaram defies easy categorization, one of its many charms. ![]()
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