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Q & A : a novel / Vikas Swarup.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.4.S93 Q13 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swarup, Vikas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waiters--Fiction.
- Waiters.
- Television quiz shows--Fiction.
- Television quiz shows.
- Radio quiz shows--Fiction.
- Radio quiz shows.
- Poor--Fiction.
- Poor.
- Billionaires--Fiction.
- Billionaires.
- Mumbai (India)--Fiction.
- Mumbai (India).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 318 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner edition.
- Other Title:
- Q and A
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2005.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1,000 Rupees: The Death of a Hero 19
- 2,000 Rupees: The Burden of a Priest 35
- 5,000 Rupees: A Brother's Promise 54
- 10,000 Rupees: A Thought for the Crippled 73
- 50,000 Rupees: How to Speak Australian 103
- 100,000 Rupees: Hold On to Your Buttons 130
- 200,000 Rupees: Murder on the Western Express 148
- 500,000 Rupees: A Soldier's Tale 166
- 1,000,000 Rupees: License to Kill 192
- 10,000,000 Rupees: Tragedy Queen 211
- 100,000,000 Rupees: X Gkrz Opknu (or A Love Story) 238
- 1,000,000,000 Rupees: The Thirteenth Question 301.
- ISBN:
- 0743267478
- OCLC:
- 57564932
- Publisher Number:
- 9780743267472
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