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Slumdog millionaire [electronic resource] / Vikas Swarup.
A small prison cell in India holds an eighteen-year-old penniless waiter from a Mumbai slum. But Ram Mohammad Thomas isn't a criminal. He is under arrest for correctly answering twelve tricky trivia questions on the show Who Will Win a Billion? Reluctant to part with the jackpot of one billion rupees, the show's directors bribe the police to arrest Ram, accusing him of cheating--for how else could a poor, uneducated orphan know so much: the name of the smallest planet, global capitols, and diplomatic policy?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780792762683 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0792762681 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [North Kingstown] : BBC Audiobooks America, 2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 10:45:44. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Christopher Simpson. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 154669 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Waiters > Fiction. Television quiz shows > Fiction. Poor > Fiction. Billionaires > Fiction. Bombay (India) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Arrested for unbelievably answering all twelve questions on the Indian game show, "Who Will Win a Billion?" semi-literate waiter Ram Mohammad Thomas explains to his lawyer how he knew the answers due to events in his personal life. - Findaway World Llc
Former tiffin boy Ram Mohammad Thomas has correctly answered twelve questions on a television quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheatingâfor how else could a poor, uneducated orphan know so much: the name of the smallest planet, global capitals, and diplomatic policy? In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life gave him the answers.
From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywoodâs rich and famous, Ramâs story is brimming with the chaotic comedy, heart-stopping tragedy, and tear-inducing joyousness of modern India.
