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The basis for The Great Indian Murder, now a streaming series Vikas Swarup unravels the lives and motives of the six suspects, offering both a riveting page-turner and an insightful look into the heart of contemporary India. 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 arrest six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi; an American tourist infatuated with an Indian actress; a Stone Age tribesman on a quest; a Bollywood sex symbol with a guilty secret; a mobile-phone thief who dreams big; and an ambitious politician prepared to stoop low.

The bestselling book behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLLIONAIRE directed by Danny Boyle'An absorbing and richly entertaining read' TimesFormer tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees.

Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees.

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut, which provided the inspiration for the award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is a page-turning and beguiling story of love, perseverance, and drama. Vikas Swarup's remarkable 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 charming 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.

From the author of the book behind the blockbuster movie Slumdog Millionaire, a brilliant novel about life changing in an instant

Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. each of them steaming with a secret motive.India's wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the murderer. In doing so, the amazing, tender and touching, techni-colour lives of six eccentric personalities unravel before our eyes. But can we trust Advani? Or does he have another agenda in mind...?

?ber 100.000 verkaufte Exemplare - jetzt feiert der Film international Triumphe. Ram Mohammed Thomas wurde verhaftet. Und das, weil er alle zw?lf Fragen in der Quizshow WER WIRD MILLION?R? richtig beantworten konnte. Niemand glaubt, dass ein Waisenjunge, der nie in seinem Leben eine Schule besucht hat, all dies wissen kann. Vikas Swarups Roman aus dem modernen Indien wurde 100.000 Mal verkauft, und auch der Film unter der Regie von Danny Boyle ist ein ph?nomenaler Erfolg. Er ber?hrt die Herzen mit der abenteuerlichen Lebens- und romantischen Liebesgeschichte von Jamal (Dev Patel) und Latika (Freida Pinto) und entf?hrt in eine Welt voller Lebensenergie und Gegens?tze im heutigen Indien. Ein modernes M?rchen, das Tr?ume und Hoffnungen in atemberaubenden Bildern erscheinen l?sst. - Slumdog Million?r ab 19. M?rz fl?chendeckend bundesweit in den Kinos - Regie Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach) - "Bester Film" und "Beste Regie" beim London Film Festival - Publikumspreis beim Toronto-Filmfestival - Golden Globe Auszeichnungen in den 4 Kategorien: "Bester Film" "Beste Regie" "Bestes Drehbuch" "Bester Soundtrack", daher aussichtsreicher Kandidat bei der Oscar-Verleihung am 22. Februar in Los Angeles - Hauptrolle: Dev Patel, der f?r seine Rolle als Jamal (Ram Mohammed Thomas) bereits zweimal als "bester Nachwuchsschauspieler" ausgezeichnet wurde

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 BOLLYWOOD S 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 TIME

Et indisk panorama fra forfatteren av boken bak "Slumdog millionaire"! Playboyen Vicky Rai blir frikjent for et mord han begikk for syv år siden, og for å feire frikjennelsen arrangerer han et stort selskap. Under selskapet blir han myrdet. Seks av gjestene blir tatt inn til avhør: en korrupt byråkrat, en forelsket amerikaner, en urinnvåner på jakt etter en hellig stein, et Bollywood sexsymbol, en mobiltelefontyv med store drømmer og en ambisiøs politiker som ikke skyr noen midler. Boken er inspirert av faktiske hendelser, og igjen gir Swarup oss et fengslende og innsiktsfullt blikk inn i det moderne Indias hjerte og sjel.

GUTTEN SOM HADDE SVAR PÅ ALT er boken bak Danny Boyles film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, som allerede i januar 2009 ble utropt av anmelderne til en av årets beste filmer. Den har vunnet 4 Golden Globes og 11 BAFTA Awards, og er nominert til 10 Oscars. GUTTEN SOM HADDE SVAR PÅ ALT er indiske Vikas Swarups kritikerroste og prisbelønte debutroman og er oversatt til hele 36 språk.

A high-stakes tour-de-force from Vikas Swarup, the internationally bestselling author of Q & A, the book that inspired one of the most memorable films of the twenty-first century: hit Hollywood, multiple-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Devi is a fighter. Growing up in the slums of Delhi, she has learnt that survival comes at a cost – and naturally, that means she’s made a few enemies along the way. Now she’s being held captive, her life up for sale in an online auction, where the highest bidder will determine her fate. With her existence hanging in the balance, Devi proceeds to give her captor ‘a confession to beat all confessions’ – as over the course of a single night, Devi unveils the secrets of her seven extraordinary lives. Devi is the ultimate survivor – a girl from the gutters who dares to rewrite her own destiny. But will she survive the longest night of her life?