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 and 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.
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2011年7月18日,讀完瞭(印度)維卡斯·斯瓦魯普的《貧民窟的百萬富翁》,共23萬字。 這是一部近年來難得的優秀小說,更是一部讓人翻開便欲罷不能的故事。雖然由小說改編的電影引起瞭一時轟動,但小說所敘述的內容豐富,並且在一定程度上更加黑暗、更加深刻...
評分第一眼看到這本書的時候,便被深深的吸引住,腦海中的記憶也隨之撲麵而來——高一老師極力推薦的一部電影,我不厭其煩看瞭兩遍、記憶尤深的電影,被評為作為成熟男人不得不看的電影! 沒看過由這部小說改編的電影的人是絕對不知道個中緣由的。對於獲得8項奧斯卡...
評分2011年7月18日,讀完瞭(印度)維卡斯·斯瓦魯普的《貧民窟的百萬富翁》,共23萬字。 這是一部近年來難得的優秀小說,更是一部讓人翻開便欲罷不能的故事。雖然由小說改編的電影引起瞭一時轟動,但小說所敘述的內容豐富,並且在一定程度上更加黑暗、更加深刻...
評分小說比電影的情節要復雜的多,描寫到瞭印度社會的許多階層和行業,可以說是一部印度社會的萬花筒。通過此書我們可以初步瞭解印度社會的方方麵麵:貧民窟、黑幫、間諜、士兵、明星、教派、性醜聞、同性戀等等。 而電影就簡單多瞭,限於篇幅,刪減瞭許多情節,甚至主人...
圖書標籤: 小說 印度 英文原版 英文 外國文學 貧民窟的百萬富翁 社會 奧斯卡
比電影更印度。後期寫得有點冗長,讀起來犯睏。第一次讀完的英文原版書。
評分和電影不太一樣 不過更精彩
評分This is the first English novel I have ever read through.
評分電影比小說好看
評分還不錯
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