{"product_id":"9781554685134","title":"Slumdog Millionaire","description":"\u003cp\u003eRam Mohammad Thomas has been arrested—for answering twelve questions correctly on TV’s Who Will Win a Billion? Ram has never gone to school and never read a newspaper. There is no way a poor orphan from Jimmy’s Bar could know the names of the planets or the plays of Shakespeare ... unless he cheated. Rescued from his police cell by a lawyer, Ram reviews television footage of his flawless performance and takes us on an amazing tour of his life growing up in Asia’s biggest slum—from the day he is salvaged from a garbage can, to his job with a faded Bollywood star, to working as an over-creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal, to falling in love with Nita, a young prostitute. A brilliantly conceived fable with a modern sensibility, Slumdog Millionaire is a comic and charming novel that paints an enthralling portrait of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published as \u003cem\u003eQ\u0026amp;A\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vikas Swarup","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":47220055081120,"sku":"9781554685134","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_13a0493c-648f-420c-b4b6-8f245ee658c9.jpg?v=1697330122","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781554685134","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}