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? This is the unabridged audiobook of the work that inspired the film, Slumdog Millionaire.
Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, and Great Britain, and currently works in New Delhi. Q&A is his first novel.