Q & A: A Novel

Vikas Swarup’s exceptional debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, the place Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after accurately answering all twelve questions on India’s greatest quiz present, Who Will Win a Billion? It’s onerous to consider {that a} poor orphan who has by no means learn a newspaper or gone to highschool might win such a contest. However by means of a collection of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the reply to every query.

Ram takes us on an incredible evaluate of his personal historical past—from the day he was discovered as a child within the garments donation field of a Delhi church to his employment by a pale Bollywood star to his journey with a security-crazed Australian military colonel to his profession as a very inventive tour information on the Taj Mahal.

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Q & A is an enthralling mix of excessive comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we all know what we all know—not nearly trivia, however about life itself. Slicing throughout humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic imaginative and prescient of the battle between good and evil—and what occurs when one boy has no different selection in life however to outlive.