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Slumdog Millionaire
by Vikas Swarup
I saw the film a few years ago together with my mother, and I was amazed by the story – almost as much as I was amazed by Dev Patel and how wonderful he is. So, when I learned it was based on a book; it didn't take me long to go to the library in an attempt to find it. However, even though the library claimed to have it, it was nowhere to be found. Until the other day when I found it on a shelf way off where it's supposed to be. Talk about faith.
Ram Mohammad Thomas has just been arrested. Why? For winning the top prize on India's most popular quiz show. As a boy living in the slums of Mumbai, the producers of the show are convinced he cheated in order to win the billion rupees. Because how else would a slumdog be able to answer all twelve questions correctly? He even said he'd never been to school or even read a newspaper.
But when his lawyer asks him to explain how he knows the answers to those twelve questions, he takes her on a wild ride consisting of stories from different periods in his life, from the day he was found abandoned at a church to his days as a tour guide at Taj Mahal to only a few days before the quiz show. Each story contains an explain as to how he could possibly know the answer to each question.
Oh god. This is possibly one of the best books I have ever read. It's heart-warming, occasionally hilarious but also heart-wrenching and tragedic. It's an absurd but still realistic story about the life of a young orphan boy and his experiences and relationship as he tries to survive in a world that couldn't care less for him.
I didn't want to put the book down and I felt a pang of sadness when I read the last page. I didn't want it to end but at the same time, I didn't want it to continue either. It's brilliant just the way it is; a whirlwind of different genres – everything from comedy to drama, just like life itself. It is raw and powerful and just amazing.
Ram Mohammad Thomas has just been arrested. Why? For winning the top prize on India's most popular quiz show. As a boy living in the slums of Mumbai, the producers of the show are convinced he cheated in order to win the billion rupees. Because how else would a slumdog be able to answer all twelve questions correctly? He even said he'd never been to school or even read a newspaper.
But when his lawyer asks him to explain how he knows the answers to those twelve questions, he takes her on a wild ride consisting of stories from different periods in his life, from the day he was found abandoned at a church to his days as a tour guide at Taj Mahal to only a few days before the quiz show. Each story contains an explain as to how he could possibly know the answer to each question.
Oh god. This is possibly one of the best books I have ever read. It's heart-warming, occasionally hilarious but also heart-wrenching and tragedic. It's an absurd but still realistic story about the life of a young orphan boy and his experiences and relationship as he tries to survive in a world that couldn't care less for him.
I didn't want to put the book down and I felt a pang of sadness when I read the last page. I didn't want it to end but at the same time, I didn't want it to continue either. It's brilliant just the way it is; a whirlwind of different genres – everything from comedy to drama, just like life itself. It is raw and powerful and just amazing.