SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

A former tiffin boy from M:rmbai Ram MohammCd Thomas has just got twelve question correct on a TV quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in a prison cell on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was unless he has been _lIing a fastpne? In the order of the questions on the show Ram tells us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life taught him the answers. From orphanages to brothels gangsters to beggar-masters and into the homes of Bollywoods rich and famous Slumdog Millionaire is brimming with the chaotic comedy heart-stopping tragedy and tear-inducing joyfulness of modern India. This brilliant story as colossal vibrant and chaotic as India itself...is not to be missed Observer A lively first novel. . . India is equally chaotic and enchanting Sunday TImes.