by Vikas Swarup · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552775427
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«Slumdog Millionaire» is the contemporary fiction novel by Vikas Swarup, published by Black Swan in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Ram Mohammad Thomas, a boy from the slums of India, wins a television quiz show and is arrested on suspicion of cheating. The novel follows the order of the twelve questions to tell his life on the streets: orphanages, brothels, gangsters and Bollywood. Each experience explains an answer and reflects the comedy and tragedy of modern India.
The novel was originally published as «Q & A» in 2005; this 2009 edition is the version tied to Danny Boyle's film. It won the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize in 2006.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in India and in discovering the novel on which Danny Boyle's film is based.
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