A colourful portrait of Indian society is painted with remarkable
lightness and wit.

A hugely successful mixture of satire and intrigue.

Mingling broad humour with incisive social comment, Q&A is
absorbing and richly entertaining reading.

An engaging and surprisingly informative read.

How a penniless waiter from Mumbai became the biggest quiz-show winner in history - warm-hearted comic storytelling by a debut author

Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammad Thomas is in prison after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to scoop one billion rupees. The producers have arrested him, convinced that he has cheated his way to victory. Twelve extraordinary events in street-kid Ram's life - how he was found in a dustbin by a priest; came to have three names; fooled a professional hitman; even fell in love - give him the crucial answers. In his warm-hearted tale lies all the comedy, tragedy, joy and pathos of modern India.

Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammad Thomas is in prison after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The producers have arrested him, convinced that he has cheated his way to victory. Twelve extraordinary events in street-kid Ram?s life ? how he was found in a dustbin by a priest; came to have three names; fooled a professional hitman; even fell in love ? give him the crucial answers. In his warm-hearted tale lies all the comedy, tragedy, joy and pathos of modern India.

Vikas Swarup:
VIKAS SWARUP is an Indian diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia and Great Britain. He is presently posted in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. Q&A is to be published in twelve countries worldwide; film rights optioned preemptively. Hie is at work on a second novel.

2008-08-05 ...wish you'd thought up the concept yourself

Q+A is one of those novels that you start reading and wish you'd thought up the concept yourself! The whole book revolves around the correct answers gien by a gameshow contestant on an Indian version of Who Wants to be a Milionaire. Vikas Swarup not only makes the unlikely scenario seem totally plausible, but manages to weave an excellent plot around these 'correct' questions that ties up very neatly at the end.