Rights to Q & A have been sold in thirty seven languages;The major Radio Four dramatization on Woman's Hour ran for two weeks and has been shortlisted for the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Award;SLUMDOG won four Golden Globes inc BEST FILM, BEST DIRECTOR and BEST SCREENPLAY. It has 11 Bafta nominations. Oscar nominations on 22 Jan 09SLUMDOG film tie in and Q&A, the original edition, have both reprinted several times since publication on 1 Jan 09.
Vikas Swarup is a member of the Indian Foreign Service and Q&A is his first novel. An international sensation, it has been translated into over forty languages, and was recently made into the multiple Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. His new novel Six Suspects is also available as a Black Swan paperback.
To find out more about Vikas Swarup, visit his website: www.vikasswarup.net
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, unless he is pulling a fast one.
In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life gave him the answers. From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous, Ram's story is brimming with the chaotic comedy, heart-stopping tragedy and tear-inducing joyousness of modern India.
Q&A is a poignant, funny, rich, beautifully written novel with an utterly original and brilliant structure at its heart. A rare joy.'This page-turning novel reels from farce to melodrama to fairytale.''An inspired idea ...a broad and sympathetic humanity underpins this book.''Swarup is an accomplished storyteller.''Swarup has achieved a triumph with this thrilling, endearing work.'
