Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut, which provided the inspiration for the award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is a page-turning and beguiling story of love, perseverance, and drama. Vikas Swarup's remarkable 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...
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut, which provided the inspiration for the award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is a page-turning and beguilin...
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Slumdog Millionaire comes a richly textured social thriller.
Seven years ago, Vivek "Vicky" Rai, the playboy son of the home minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered bartender Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi, simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai has been killed at the party he was throwing to celebrate his acquittal. The police arrest six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi; an American tourist infatuated with an Indian...
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Slumdog Millionaire comes a richly textured social thriller.
Ein Kellner gewinnt in der indischen Version von "Wer wird Millionär?" eine Milliarde Rupien (15 Millionen Euro). Doch wie kann dies so einem gelingen? Einem, der gar keine Schulbildung hat? Die Polizei verhaftet ihn wegen Betrugs und versucht seine "Masche" aus ihm herauszufoltern. Doch dann taucht Smita auf. Sie erklärt, sie sei seine Anwältin. Er erzählt ihr zu jeder Frage eine Geschichte aus seinem Leben, eine Geschichte, die begründet, warum er jede Frage korrekt beantworten konnte. §Die Geschichten stehen zunächst unverbunden nebeneinander, Geschichten aus Indiens Slums, von...
Ein Kellner gewinnt in der indischen Version von "Wer wird Millionär?" eine Milliarde Rupien (15 Millionen Euro). Doch wie kann dies so einem gelinge...
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
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 slun...