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Q & A - by Vikas Swarup (Paperback)

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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?
  • About the Author: Vikas Swarup is a former diplomat and best-selling author who gained global recognition with his debut novel, Q&A, adapted into the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
  • 336 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



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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"It was an inspired idea by Vikas Swarup to write Q & A...A broad and sympathetic humanity underpins the whole book." -- The Sunday Telegraph, London



About the Author



Vikas Swarup is a former diplomat and best-selling author who gained global recognition with his debut novel, Q&A, adapted into the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. His second novel Six Suspects was made into The Great Indian Murder on Disney/Hulu. His books have been translated into 47 international languages. This is his new novel.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 336
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Format: Paperback
Author: Vikas Swarup
Language: English
Street Date: August 12, 2008
TCIN: 76988368
UPC: 9780743267489
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-7660
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.9 inches length x 5.2 inches width x 7.9 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.6 pounds
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