Q&A is a poignant, funny, rich, beautifully written novel with an utterly original and brilliant structure at its heart. A rare joy.
Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now
 

Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammed 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 answes.

In his warm-hearted tale lies all the comedy, tragedy, joy and pathos of modern India.

'A lively first novel ... India is equally chaotic and enchanting.'
Sunday Times

Q&A is popular fiction at its best and brightest. The prose is efficient and the characters are briskly drawn in strong, sharp colours. Swarup clearly understands his job. As an exercise in genre, the novel is a triumph and that was before the movie-makers got to work.
Robert McCrum Guardian

‘This brilliant story, as colossal, vibrant and chaotic as India itself … is not to be missed.’
Observer

'Swarup is an accomplished storyteller.'
Daily Mail

'Not simply the story of a quiz, but rather a reminder of the various often apparently random, ways in which knowledge can be acquired by the adventurous, the curious and the observant ... Swarup is an accomplished storyteller.'
Daily Mail

'This page-turning novel reels from farce to melodrama to fairytale.'
You Magazine 'Book of the Week'

'An enthusiastic debut worth devouring.'
The Sunday Tribune

'Gloriously fantastical story of how an uneducated orphan came to answer every single question in the Bombay quis show Who Will Win a Billion?...an endearingly moral novel'.
The Times

'Swarup has achieved a triumph with this thrilling, endearing work.'
New Zealand Herald

'An inspired idea ...a broad and sympathetic humanity underpins this book.'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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