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Q & A Paperback - 2008

by Vikas Swarup

In this spectacular debut novel, newcomer Vikas Swarup delivers the exhilarating story of an impoverished semi-literate Indian waiter who stuns the world by correctly answering all 12 questions on the game show, "Who Will Win a Billion."


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Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut, which provided the inspiration for the award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is a page-turning and beguiling story of love, perseverance, and drama.Vikas Swarup's remarkable debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question. Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history--from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Swarup's Q & A is a charming blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know--not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil--and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.

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THE THIRD BELL HAS SOUNDED.

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  • Title Q & A
  • Author Vikas Swarup
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
  • Date 2008-08-12
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780743267489 / 0743267486
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Billionaires
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 08/31/2008, Page 20
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