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Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup

Slumdog Millionaire

Transworld Paperbacks (Jan 01, 2009)
9780552775427
382 pages | 106 x 176 mm | English

Subject

  • Billionaires
  • Poor
  • Psychological Fiction
  • Television Quiz Shows
  • Waiters And Waitresses

Plot

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.