Q & A: Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup

‘This brilliant story, as colossal, vibrant and chaotic as India itself … is not to be missed.’
Observer


Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was, unle

Q&A is popular fiction at its best and brightest. The prose is efficient and the characters are briskly drawn in strong, sharp colours. Swarup clearly understands his job. As an exercise in genre, the novel is a triumph and that was before the movie-makers got to work.
Robert McCrum Guardian

'A lively first novel … India is equally chaotic and enchanting.'
Sunday Times

'Swarup has achieved a triumph with this thrilling, endearing work.'
New Zealand Herald

Q&A is a poignant, funny, rich, beautifully written novel with an utterly original and brilliant structure at its heart. A rare joy.
Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now

'Not simply the story of a quiz, but rather a reminder of the various often apparently random, ways in which knowledge can be acquired by the adventurous, the curious and the observant … Swarup is an accomplished storyteller.'
Daily Mail

'An inspired idea …a broad and sympathetic humanity underpins this book.'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'An enthusiastic debut worth devouring.'
The Sunday Tribune

'This page-turning novel reels from farce to melodrama to fairytale.'
You Magazine 'Book of the Week'

'Gloriously fantastical story of how an uneducated orphan came to answer every single question in the Bombay quis show Who Will Win a Billion?…an endearingly moral novel'.
The Times