Shantaram Chapter 19 Summary

  • In the end, nine people die in the cholera epidemic.
  • Karla stays to help for six days. When it's over, Lin is out of money, so he heads out to the street to make some commissions on black-market deals.
  • While he's out, he runs into Vikram and they grab a cane juice together.
  • They dance to a song on the radio and, when they're through, see Lettie watching them. She tells them that Karla is stranded at the Taj Hotel because of floods from the heavy rains.
  • Lin jumps into Prabaker's cousin Shantu's taxi and heads to the fishermen's settlement next to the slum. He gets a friend to lend him a boat, and they pole up the road to the Taj.
  • Karla comes out and gets in, and Vinod, the fisherman, takes them to dry land.
  • She gets into a taxi, and Lin finds Shantu and gets into his taxi. As he sits, he notices Rajan, Madame Zhou's creepy servant, staring at him.
  • Lin goes back into town that night to get some rest in a hotel and to take a real shower.
  • The manager, Anand, asks Lin for help. An Italian tourist has overdosed in a room, which is very bad for business.
  • Lin does CPR and the guy finally comes back to life.
  • He showers, shaves, and goes back down into the street. Ulla pulls up in a taxi, begging Lin for help.
  • He gets in. She asks Lin to meet her at one in the morning at Leopold's, because she's in trouble.
  • Lin promises to meet her.
  • He gets out of the taxi and takes a walk that turns into a run. He ends up outside Karla's. He sees her in the doorway in a nightgown, and she walks out into the rain to him. They kiss in the street and go in to her bed.
  • After they get it on, Lin realizes he's late to meet Ulla and jumps to run. This is irritating for Karla, understandably.
  • As he runs through the streets, he is suddenly surrounded by cops and thrown into a jeep.
  • He is taken to the police station, where he is beaten and put into a cell.