
Xiang Talan (2025 Version)
by (australia)gregory David Roberts
About This Novel
"Xiang Talan": a true story, the sum of all adventures and wisdom. Limbaba was the youngest philosophy and literature lecturer at the university, but he became addicted to drugs due to the breakdown of his marriage. In order to obtain drug money, he wore a full suit and behaved politely to commit robberies. He was dubbed a "gentleman robber" and was sentenced to more than ten years in prison. Two years later, he escaped from the most heavily guarded prison in Australia and smuggled to Mumbai. With his ulterior past, he entered the lower class society and started a new life journey with beggars, prostitutes, soldiers and escapees from all over the world. In a small village, he got a new name "Xiang Talan", which means "the man of peace given by heaven". Lin Baba learned how to bathe with clothes on; he lived in a slum and became a doctor beloved by everyone; he joined a gang and engaged in smuggling and arms trading, and was caught in the hail of bullets again and again; he fell in love with a green-eyed woman, Kara, and fell into a deeper secret... After eight years of hard work and countless desperate situations, Lin Baba may have truly become "Xiang Talan". The story of "Xiangtaram" spans eight years and takes place in the mysterious Indian city of Mumbai. In the story, there are overt and covert struggles between gangsters, as well as mutual help and emotional collision among poor people... This book contains the sum of all adventures and wisdom, and paints a picture of all living beings in the world.
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