num_pages: 361
description: How a penniless waiter from Mumbai became the biggest quiz-show winner in history...Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammad Thomas is in prison after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The producers have arrested him, convinced that he has cheated his way to victory. Twelve extraordinary events in street-kid Ram's life - how he was found in a dustbin by a priest; came to have three names; fooled a professional hitman; even fell in love - give him the crucial answers. In his warm-hearted tale lies all the comedy, tragedy, joy and pathos of modern India.
language: English
title: Q & A
titlecomplete: Q & A
characters: Ram Mohammad Thomas
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, Drama, India, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 34990
places: India, Mumbai
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
publisher: Black Swan