The Accidental Apprentice - Softcover
From the author of the book behind the blockbuster movie Slumdog Millionaire, a brilliant novel about life changing in an instant. Life pivots on a few key moments. This is one of them. Sapna Sinha works in an electronics store in downtown Delhi. She hates her job, but she is ambitious and determined to succeed, and she knows without the money she brings in, her family won
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Vikas Swarup is the author of the bestselling sensation Q&A, which was filmed as the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, and Six Suspects. His novels have been translated into more than forty languages. Find out more at www.vikasswarup.net
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""Slumdog Millionaire "author Swarup is a skilled storyteller who doesn't hesitate to take on some of the most troublesome issues of his native land--corruption, caste, color, tradition--as he also captures and celebrates its sights and sounds in this fast-moving mystery."--"Booklist
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"Swarup ("Six Suspects", 2009, etc.) intrigues and mystifies...A thought-provoking dissection of a modern India."--"Kirkus Reviews
""Swarup's voice has a magical quality--an essential kindness, a likeability . . . Like the Bollywood dance at the end of "Slumdog Millionaire, " it is oddly uplifting and joyful." --"The Sunday Times" (UK)
"Gets off to an exciting start and ends with a spectacular twist." --"Mail on Sunday" (UK)
"A complex, challenging, and deeply moving tale of following our dreams until they come true." --"Press Association" (UK)
"Swarup's prose is crisp. . . . A thrilling chase."--Paul Dunn, "The Times" (UK)
"Swarup (Six Suspects") puts a distinctively Indian spin on this thoroughly enjoyable crime novel with a scenario that will remind many of The Hunger Games"."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
""Slumdog Millionaire "author Swarup is a skilled storyteller who doesn't hesitate to take on some of the most troublesome issues of his native land--corruption, caste, color, tradition--as he also captures and celebrates its sights and sounds in this fast-moving mystery."--"Booklist
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"Swarup ("Six Suspects", 2009, etc.) intrigues and mystifies...A thought-provoking dissection of a modern India."--"Kirkus Reviews
""Swarup's voice has a magical quality--an essential kindness, a likeability . . . Like the Bollywood dance at the end of "Slumdog Millionaire, " it is oddly uplifting and joyful." --"The Sunday Times" (UK)
"Gets off to an exciting start and ends with a spectacular twist." --"Mail on Sunday" (UK)
"A complex, challenging, and deeply moving tale of following our dreams until they come true." --"Press Association" (UK)
"Swarup's prose is crisp. . . . A thrilling chase."--Paul Dunn, "The Times" (UK)
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- PublisherSimon and Schuster
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1471113167
- ISBN 13 9781471113161
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages436
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