- Poor, Fiction, Billionaires, Waiters
When an illiterate waiter takes the top prize on 'Who Will Win a Billion', becoming the biggest quiz show winner in Indian history, is anyone surprised that he is arrested for cheating? But who was to know that 18 years of street-life has equipped him with enough crucial wisdom to send him sailing through with not a single pass?
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- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Vikas Swarup
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 379
- Publisher
- Transworld Publ. Ltd UK, Transworld Publishers Limited, Scribner
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781407037561
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