Q & A: A Novel, Vikas SwarupVikas 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

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

This tender

to fight for

by turns lyrical and obscene

I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life

In this literary tour de force

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Ali is determined to understand what or who pushed his father to such desperation—and to avenge his death

He mounts an elaborate plot for revenge with an ever-changing crew (willing and not) that includes his silk-underwear-and-cologne-wearing roommate

When she is six

beating the Japanese at their own game