| Q & A Edition Edition Contributor(s): Swarup, Vikas (Author), Shale, Kerry (Read by) |
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ISBN: 157270487X ISBN-13: 9781572704879 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: September 2005 Annotation: Ram Mohammad Thomas may be in jail, but he is not a criminal. A penniless 18-year-old waiter from the slums of India, Ram appeared to be on the path to wealth when he correctly answered 12 questions on the TV show "Who Wants to Win a Billion? The show's producers bribe the police to arrest him for cheating, and as Ram's lawyer rescues him from prison, he also extracts Ram's amazing life-story and a captivating portrait of 21st-century India. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.54" W x 6.38" (0.37 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Vikas Swarup's spectacular 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 beguiling 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Swarup, Vikas: - Vikas Swarup's first novel was made into the Oscar Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire and has been translated into over forty languages. Swarup has written for Time, Newsweek, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. An Indian diplomat, he has been posted to Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Japan. He lives in India. Shale, Kerry: -Kerry Shale is a Sony Radio Academy Award winner, a narrator of dozens of audio books, and an actor in films as diverse as Yentl and Welcome to Sarajevo. He won an Audie Award for his narration of Q&A. |