Slumdog Millionaire
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On Sale:
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01/12/2008
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Formats:
Trade paperback
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Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested—for answering twelve questions correctly on TV’s Who Will Win a Billion? Ram has never gone to school and never read a newspaper. There is no way a poor orphan from Jimmy’s Bar could know the names of the planets or the plays of Shakespeare ... unless he cheated. Rescued from his police cell by a lawyer, Ram reviews television footage of his flawless performance and takes us on an amazing tour of his life growing up in Asia’s biggest slum—from the day he is salvaged from a garbage can, to his job with a faded Bollywood star, to working as an over-creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal, to falling in love with Nita, a young prostitute. A brilliantly conceived fable with a modern sensibility, Slumdog Millionaire is a comic and charming novel that paints an enthralling portrait of humanity.
Originally published as Q&A.
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Critical Praise for
Slumdog Millionaire
“Fun, intelligent and leaves you wanting more.”
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Toronto Star
“A dream of a book.”
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Winnipeg Free Press
“This brilliant story, as colossal, vibrant and chaotic as India
itself . . . is not to be missed.”
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The Observer
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Q and A
When Ram Mohammed Thomas, an uneducated orphan from Asia’s largest slum, answers 12 questions to win a billion rupees on an Indian TV quiz show, he startles everyone—even himself. Framed for cheating by the show’s unscrupulous producers, Ram must defend himself in the course of...
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