Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

Overwhelming, enveloping, fascinating, amazing - I never wanted its 900+ pages to end. True story of an Australian ex criminal, jail escapee; who goes on to even more amazing adventures in richly textured India and Bombay's underworld; who falls in love with a woman, with a country and its people. There is so much passion and humanity in this person, I felt that Australia couldn't contain him once he'd experienced India like this. The book's blurb does say he's now living in India. After this immersive mind-blowing book, other books I'm now reading seem insipid...