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On completing his prison sentence, he established a small multimedia company and is now a fulltime writer. The mountain shadow gregory david roberts download free ebook. His new novel, the mountain shadow, continues the story of shantaram and was published in october 2015. Shantaram by gregory david roberts is a huge yet hardtoputdown novel. Gregory david roberts, the author of shantaram and its sequel, the mountain shadow, was born in melbourne, australia.

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