by Vikas Swarup · Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783462037388
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Rupien! Rupien!» is the contemporary novel by Vikas Swarup, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in paperback (352 pages, in German).
Mohammed Thomas, an uneducated Indian waiter, is arrested after getting twelve questions right on a television quiz show. No one believes he could know so much and he is accused of fraud. Before his lawyer, he reviews the episodes of his life that explain each answer, showing an India of contrasts. «Rupien! Rupien!» is the novel on which Slumdog Millionaire is based.
German translation by Bernhard Robben. Number 954 of the KiWi collection from Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
For readers of contemporary fiction and for those who want to approach the story that gave rise to Slumdog Millionaire.
Libro de bolsillo
Vikas Swarup is an Indian writer and retired diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service who served as the Secretary (West) at the Ministry of External Affairs, India on 30 June 2021 and previously served as High Commissioner of India in Canada and has been the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs. He authored the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of Best Film for the year 2009 at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.
