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  • Published: 1 February 2006
  • ISBN: 9780552772501
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $32.99

Q & A

Slumdog Millionaire




The bestselling, award-winning novel behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, directed by Danny Boyle

The bestselling book behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLLIONAIRE directed by Danny Boyle

'An absorbing and richly entertaining read' Times

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 cheating?

In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which incredible adventures in his life on the streets 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 joyousness of modern India.

'Popular fiction at its best and brightest' Guardian
'Colourful' Sunday Telegraph
'Poignant, funny, rich' MEG ROSOFF, bestselling author of HOW I LIVE NOW
'Not to be missed' Observer

  • Published: 1 February 2006
  • ISBN: 9780552772501
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup is a member of the Indian Foreign Service. Q&A was his first novel. An international bestseller, it has been translated into over forty languages, and was made into the multiple Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.

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Praise for Q & A

Poignant, funny, rich... with an utterly orignal and brilliant structure at its heart

Meg Rosoff, author of HOW I LIVE NOW

This brilliant story, as colossal, vibrant and chaotic as India itself... is not to be missed

Observer

Swarup is an accomplished storyteller

Daily Mail

This lively picaresque novel has an original and telling premise... a colourful portrait of Indian society is painted with remarkable lightness and wit

Sunday Telegraph

An engaging and surprisingly informative read

Telegraph

A hugely successful mixture of satire and intrigue

Independent on Sunday

Mingling broad humour with incisive social comment, Q&A is absorbing and richly entertaining reading

The Times

This novel is part homage to the larger-than-life Bollywood film industry, and the characters and story are so engaging that you really have to read on to find out how it all comes together in the end

Derby Evening Telegraph

Q&A is popular fiction at its best and brightest. The prose is efficient and the characters are briskly drawn in strong, sharp colours. Swarup clearly understands his job. As an exercise in genre, the novel is a triumph and that was before the movie-makers got to work

Robert McCrum, Guardian

One of the most delightful reads i've enjoyed in years

Shashi Tharoor