Slumdog millionaire

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Title:

Slumdog millionaire

Author:

Swarup, Vikas.

ISBN:

9780552775427

9780552775359

Personal Author:

Swarup, Vikas.

Edition:

Black Swan film tie-in ed. reissued.

Publication Information:

London : Black Swan, 2009.

Physical Description:

382 pages ; 18 cm

General Note:

Previously published as Q & A -- cover.

Originally published in Great Britain: Doubleday, 2005; Black Swan ed. published 2006.

"A film by Danny Boyle"--Cover.

Abstract:

The 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.

Subject Term:

Waiters and waitresses -- India -- Fiction.

Television quiz shows -- India -- Fiction.

Poor -- India -- Fiction.

Billionaires -- India -- Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Geographic Term:

Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.

Added Author:

Swarup, Vikas. Q & A.

Copies:

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Summary

Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was, unless he is pulling a fast one.

In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life gave him the answers. From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous, Ram's story is brimming with the chaotic comedy, heart-stopping tragedy and tear-inducing joyousness of modern India.