by Vikas Swarup · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552772501
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«Q & A» is the fiction novel by Indian writer Vikas Swarup, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (384 pages, in English).
A waiter in Bombay wins a television quiz show, but is arrested on charges of fraud. To prove his innocence, he evokes his life on the streets: orphanages, brothels, the Taj Mahal and the houses of Bollywood explain how an uneducated boy could know the answers. Survival, humor and social criticism in contemporary India.
The novel was originally published in 2005; this Harper Perennial edition is from 2006. It was adapted into film as Slumdog Millionaire and received the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize in 2006.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and for those interested in the novel that inspired the movie Slumdog Millionaire.
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Vikas Swarup is an Indian writer and retired diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service who served as the Secretary (West) at the Ministry of External Affairs, India on 30 June 2021 and previously served as High Commissioner of India in Canada and has been the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs. He authored the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of Best Film for the year 2009 at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.
