It would have been an interesting part of his life to know about. The audience don’t really ever discover more than this about his previous life. He was a ‘normal’ person with a wife and child and then became addicted to heroin when his marriage ended. He was in prison in Australia for committing armed robberies to fund his heroin addiction. doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. There are some very long philosophical parts of the book that I really struggled to get through because I simply didn’t care about the principles being discussed ie. There is so much to love and so much to hate! I feel like I invested a huge amount of time into the book with not a massive amount of return. I am in two minds as to whether I love or hate this book or maybe just the main character. An almost ridiculous amount of stuff happens in a relatively short period, some of which is very entertaining and some of which is very dull indeed. We are treated to many different stories with many many different characters about his life in the country. It’s about a man who escapes a maximum security prison in Australia and starts a new life in Bombay, India. I’ve just finished reading this extremely long (900 pages) semi autobiographical novel which took me just over 3 months.
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