Q & A by Vikas Swarup

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Q & A by Vikas Swarup

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Q & A by Vikas Swarup

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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Vikas Swarup was born and raised in India. He has served in the diplomatic service of Japan, Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, among others. He has contributed to TIME, The Guardian, and The Telegraph in the United Kingdom. His first novel, Slumdog Millionaire, was adapted into an Oscar-winning picture and has been translated into over forty languages. He lives with his artist wife and two sons.

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ISBN 13 9780743267489
ISBN 10 0743267486
Title Q & A
Author Vikas Swarup
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Scribner Book Company
Year published 2008-08-12
Number of pages 336
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.