Summary and Reviews of Q&A (Slumdog Millionaire) by Vikas Swarup

Media Reviews

The New York Times - Elsa Dixler Swarup, an Indian diplomat and first-time novelist, writes humorously and keeps the surprises coming. When it is turned into the movie it wants to be, Q & A will be a delight.

Daily Mail (London) Swarup is an accomplished storyteller, and Q & A has all the immediacy and impact of an oral account.

The Sunday Telegraph (UK) It was an inspired idea by Vikas Swarup to write Q & A...A broad and sympathetic humanity underpins the whole book.

Booklist Ram's funny and poignant odyssey explores the causes of good and evil and illustrates how, with a little luck, the best man sometimes wins.

Library Journal [A] readable and inventive piece of social commentary that should strike a chord with admirers of somewhat melodramatic, Dickens-like fiction.

Publishers Weekly Swarup's prose is sometimes flat and the story's picaresque form turns predictable. Ram is a likable fellow, but this q&a with him, though clever, grows wearying.