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Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after appropriately answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It really is hard to believe that an unhealthy orphan who hasn't read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his attorney how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.
Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history -- from your day he was found as your baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by way of a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.
Swarup's Q & A is a beguiling mixture of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how exactly we know what we realize -- not merely about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil -- and what goes on when one boy does not have any other choice in life but to survive.
