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A big novel stands out from the crowd on the new fiction table. In a spectacular 43 hours of storytelling, gregory david roberts and narrator humphrey bower take listeners on a rollercoaster of a journey through the streets and slums of india. I am wondering if there is an audio book app that allows you to pay per book, rather than having to do a monthly subscription. Well i found some, my first audiobook was the shiva trilogy written by amish and narrated by. Gregory david roberts, an australian armedrobberturnedslumdwellingdoctorturnedcounterfeiterturnedgunrunnerturnedauthor phew, tells the story of a similarly. Shantaram by gregory david roberts by hachette audio uk. Originally, shantaram was published by scribe publications as a hardcover and later as a paperback. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the citys poorest slums, and serving his.
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