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ISBN: 0743267486

ISBN13: 9780743267489

Q & A

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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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Rated 5 stars
Puts its Film Adaptation to shame...

...and the movie won god damned Best Picture of the year! This book is unlike any other. Unlike the film, the characters in Q & A are believable, placed in an unflinching environment, pitted against very real circumstances. Whats more is that the character is easy to relate to, smart, and strong willed, while still affected by the daunting effects of emotion and acts accordingly to whatever outstanding circumstance (None...

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Great book and great movie

Everyone loves the movie slumdog but the book is so great in its own. It has such inspiration in it and is quite funny too. I would say if you have seen slumdog read this book and if you read the book watch the movie. They are quite different and in a good way. Read.

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An Amazing Book!!!

After seeing Slumdog Millionaire, I told myself that I had to read the book. The book is wonderfully written and brings the same emotional energy from the film into writing, however most of the stories are extremely different. It is very clear to see how the book influenced the movie, but just don't be surprised on how different it really is. All and all, it was a fantastic read with a great ending that keeps you on your toes...

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AMONG THE BEST SCRIPTS OF 2008

This is a review of the film's script, not the film itself. Apart from Frost/Nixon and Doubt, this is easily among the most gripping scripts of the year, and unlike Revolutionary Road or Doubt, it is quite a chromatic departure from the novel that inspired it. Kudos to Simon Beaufoy's endeavor. It's evident that much of the this film's breakneck sizzle came from its writing, and it only gets more layered when you read the...

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Beautiful and touching life journey told through a series of answers to quiz show questions

Author Swarup has a unqiue plan for telling the life story of Indian orphan Ram Mohammad Thomas. The novel opens with Ram in jail for correctly answering all thirteen questions on the show Who Will Will a Billion? The corrupt producers of the show would be bankrupted by having to pay out a billion rupees to the winner, and they never imagined at the poor orphan would be able to answer even two or three of the questions,...

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