Vikas Swarup's spectacular 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 never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.
Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history -- from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by 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 blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know -- not just 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 happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.
作者簡介:
Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia, and Great Britain. Q & A, his first novel, is being translated into eighteen languages and is due to be made into a film. Swarup currently works in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi.
購物須知
關於二手書說明:
商品建檔資料為新書及二手書共用,因是二手商品,實際狀況可能已與建檔資料有差異,購買二手書時,請務必檢視商品書況、備註說明及書況影片,收到商品將以書況影片內呈現為準。若有差異時僅可提供退貨處理,無法換貨或再補寄。
商品版權法律說明:
TAAZE 單純提供網路二手書託售平台予消費者,並不涉入書本作者與原出版商間之任何糾紛;敬請各界鑒察。
退換貨說明:
二手書籍商品享有10天的商品猶豫期(含例假日)。若您欲辦理退貨,請於取得該商品10日內寄回。
二手影音商品(例如CD、DVD等),恕不提供10天猶豫期退貨。
二手商品無法提供換貨服務,僅能辦理退貨。如須退貨,請保持該商品及其附件的完整性(包含書籍封底之TAAZE物流條碼)。若退回商品無法回復原狀者,可能影響退換貨權利之行使或須負擔部分費用。
訂購本商品前請務必詳閱
退換貨原則、
二手CD、DVD退換貨說明。