by Vikas Swarup · Scribner · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781439136652
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«Slumdog Millionaire» is the fiction novel by Vikas Swarup, published by Scribner in paperback (318 pages, in English).
Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is arrested on suspicion of cheating after answering all twelve questions on the television quiz show «Quién ganará mil millones». His lawyer, Smita Shah, listens to the story of his life and discovers that each answer comes from a real experience.
The novel was originally published in 2005 as Q&A and won the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize in 2006. The 2008 Scribner edition includes a reading guide.
For readers of contemporary Indian fiction and episodic novels about characters who survive through their wits.
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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.
