Novels
- Q and A (2005)
- Six Suspects (2008)
- The Accidental Apprentice (2012)
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Vikas Swarup Books Overview
Q and A
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.
Six Suspects
There’s a caste system even in murder From the author of the international bestseller Slumdog Millionaire comes a richly textured tale of murder, corruption, and opportunity. Seven years ago, Vivek Vicky Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered bartender Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi, simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai has been killed at the party he was throwing to celebrate his acquittal. The police recover six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi overnight; an American tourist infatuated with an Indian actress; a stone age tribesman on a quest to recover a sacred stone; a Bollywood sex symbol with a guilty secret; a mobile phone thief who dreams big; and an ambitious politician prepared to stoop low. Swarup unravels the lives and motives of the Six Suspects, offering both a riveting page turner and an insightful peek into the heart of contemporary India. Audaciously and astutely plotted, with a panoramic imaginative sweep, Six Suspects is the work of a master storyteller.
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