Gregory David Roberts - "Shantaram. Shadow of the mountain". Gift books bound in leather.

Shantaram - is one of the most striking novels of the early twenty - first century. The book is based on the events of the author's own life. This fictionalized confession of a man who managed to get out of the abyss and survive, rammed through all the bestseller lists and earned enthusiastic comparisons with the works of the best writers of Modern times, from Melville to Hemingway. Like the author, the hero of this novel has been hiding from the law for many years. Deprived of parental rights after his divorce from his wife, he became addicted to drugs, committed a number of robberies, and was sentenced to nineteen years in prison by an Australian court. After escaping for the second year from a maximum security prison, he made it to Bombay, where he was a counterfeiter and smuggler, sold weapons and participated in the showdown of the Indian mafia, and also found his true love, only to lose it again, to find it again...
The book "Shantaram" became a real bestseller.

Shadow of the mountain - is the long  awaited sequel to one of the most striking novels of the early twenty-first century! "Shantaram" — it was a broken in artistic form confession of a man who managed to get out of the abyss and survive, sold a huge circulation around the world and earned enthusiastic comparisons with the works of the best writers of modern times, from Melville to Hemingway. The venerable Jonathan Carroll wrote: "a man whom 'Shantaram' will not touch to the bottom of his soul, either has no heart, or is dead...