Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, "Who Will Win a Billion?" It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history -- from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.Swarup's "Q and A" is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know -- not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil -- and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.
作者构思精巧,对叙事有很高的掌握能力,各种时间线的故事交错进行却丝毫不乱,语言风趣幽默,不乏辛辣,从一个传奇故事反映印度底层人民的生活艰辛与挣扎,折射出印度社会宗教、政治等诸多问题,但如果仅仅是这样也不过是值四星,最让我震撼的是结局,虽然知道律师是男主曾经...
评分于海生的翻译非常棒,让我这种没有阅读英文原著能力的读者真实的体会到拉姆的情感,那种被困麻氓手下时的彷徨无助,那种和尼塔在泰姬陵欣赏月色时爆棚的幸福感,还有抱着祥哥儿走进宴会厅的决绝和绝望等等不胜枚举。 一本小说,十三个衔接紧密又各成文章的小故事...
评分 评分这是我看的第一本英文原著。 不是很厚,但很吸引人,全书一直采用了倒叙的手法。 合上书,脑子中就有一个字:善! 男主人公的各种经历,让我觉得他是个很善良的孩子,正是因为他的善,上帝才会眷顾他,听起来这一串串的故事,像是许多人的锦集,很难想象这些全部都发身在一个贫...
评分这是目前为止我读过最棒的小说,读每个故事都像坐了一遍过山车,刺激疯狂着迷,结局更会让人意想不到,十分具有反转魅力。 现代的人们更讲求知识等于财富,这并不假但不够全面。这部小说以印度为背景生动地刻画了印度贫民窟底层人们的生活及遭遇。正是生活在这...
Destiny is in your own hands. Fight for whatever you want. It won't be a dream anymore. Let it come true, with passion, patience, intelligence, knowledge, courage, persistence and a kind heart, which is the most important.
评分It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
评分Destiny is in your own hands. Fight for whatever you want. It won't be a dream anymore. Let it come true, with passion, patience, intelligence, knowledge, courage, persistence and a kind heart, which is the most important.
评分反应印度社会黑暗面的小说。
评分比电影更印度。后期写得有点冗长,读起来犯困。第一次读完的英文原版书。
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