- Descrizione: Gregory David Roberts è uno scrittore e viaggiatore australiano, autore del romanzo Shantaram (2003), ispirato alle proprie esperienze di vita errante e clandestina. Negli anni Settanta fu condannato per rapina a mano armata e nel 1980 evase da un carcere di massima sicurezza a Melbourne. Iniziò così un lungo periodo di fuga che lo condusse in Asia e soprattutto in India, dove visse per anni a Mumbai, lavorando come medico volontario in uno slum e come collaboratore per gruppi criminali locali. La sua opera, che fonde autobiografia e finzione, esplora i temi della libertà, del riscatto e del viaggio come forma di trasformazione interiore
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Linbaba
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1952-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Asia
- Internet: https://gregorydavidroberts.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1370495
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Roberts, Gregory David. Shantaram. Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2003.
‘Doesn’t it tell you where every bus is going, on the front of the bus?’ I demanded, irritated by the delay. ‘Yes, Lin. See, this one says Aurangabad, and that one says Ajanta, and that one says Chalisgao, and that one says - ’ ‘Yeah, yeah. So … why do we have to ask every driver where he’s going?’ ‘Oh!’ he exclaimed, genuinely surprised by the question. ‘Because not every sign is a truly sign.’ ‘What do you mean, not a truly sign?’ He stopped, putting down his share of the luggage, and offered me a smile of indulgent patience. ‘Well, Lin, you see, some of those driving fellows are going to places that is nobody wants to go to. Little places, they are, with a few people only. So, they put a sign for a more popular place.’ ‘You’re telling me that they put a sign up saying they’re going to a big town, where lots of people want to go, but they’re really going somewhere else, where nobody wants to go?’ ‘That’s right, Lin,’ he beamed.
Roberts, Gregory David. Shantaram. Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2003.
