Karla Saaranen

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Karla Saaranen is a central, enigmatic love interest and morally complex figure in Gregory David Roberts' novel "Shantaram," deeply involved in the expatriate and criminal underworld of Bombay.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Shantaram
appearsInGenre novel
associatedWith Mumbai mafia
surface form: Bombay underworld

criminal underworld in Bombay
expatriate community in Bombay
characterTrait enigmatic
creator Gregory David Roberts
firstAppearance Shantaram
gender female
hasRelationshipWith Lindsay Ford NERFINISHED
involvedIn expatriate social scene in Bombay
organized crime milieu
medium literature
moralAlignment ambiguous
narrativeFunction connects protagonist to underworld networks
drives protagonist’s emotional development
nationalityInFiction Finnish
partOf Shantaram characters
roleInWork central character
love interest
morally complex figure
settingOfActivity Mumbai
surface form: Bombay
workLanguage English

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Shantaram notableCharacter Karla Saaranen