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050 00 $aPR9499.4.S93$bQ13 2005
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100 1 $aSwarup, Vikas.
245 10 $aQ & A :$ba novel /$cVikas Swarup.
246 3 $aQ and A
250 $a1st Scribner ed.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner,$c2005.
300 $aviii, 318 p. ;$c23 cm.
520 1 $a"Vikas Swarup's 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." "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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWaiters$vFiction.
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650 0 $aPoor people$vFiction.
650 0 $aBillionaires$vFiction.
651 0 $aBombay (India)$vFiction.
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcsh
852 00 $bglx$hPR9499.4.S93$iQ13 2005