Study Guide

Shantaram Characters

By Gregory David Roberts

Shantaram, starring Shantaram as… Shantaram! The narrator, protagonist, and all-around...

How's this for an introduction?: He was admired and feared by the rich. He was respected and...

Karla Saaranen, a mysterious and beautiful Swiss woman that Lin meets early in his life in...

One of the major themes in Shantaram is friendship. The relationship that grows between Lin and...

As part of his induction into Khaderbhai's group, Lin starts spending time with Abdullah—a...

A group of misfits, exiles, foreigners, and cosmopolitan Indians make up the crowd at Leopold's...

The slum, or "zhopadpatti," is not only Lin's home for several months; it's also a source for...

Just like the slum, full of its heartwarming, generally good characters, Khaderbhai's crowd is...

What a trip. This lady's out of this world, and not in a good way. She's like a symbol of all the...

If you think Madame Zhou's eunuch servant Rajan is creepy after reading this description, wait...

The rich Nigerian, Hassaan Obikwa, specializes in disappearing corpses, which actually comes in...

We don't know about you, but we're ready to get away from the city and its shady characters....