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Scribner
November 2008
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Featuring: Ram Mohammad Thomas
336 pages
ISBN: 1439136653
EAN: 9781439136652
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Fiction
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.
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