How to Kidnap the Rich

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''This is an absolute riot - part thriller, part satire of contemporary urban India'' Mail on Sunday''If you''re fat and Indian, you''re rich; if you''re fat and poor, you''re lying. It''s only the West where the rich are thin and vegan and moral...Ramesh Kumar grew up deprived and unloved, working on his father''s tea stall in the Old City of Delhi. Now, brilliant but poor, he makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India''s elite. When one of his clients, the sweet but hapless eighteen-year-old Rudi Saxena, places first in the All Indias, the national university entrance exams, Ramesh sees an unmissable opportunity.Cashing in on Rudi''s newfound celebrity, all goes well for both boys for a while. But Rudi''s role on a game show leads to unexpected love, blackmail and, finally, a dangerous kidnapping.As Ramesh leads Rudi through a maze of crimes both large and small, their dizzying journey reveals an India in all its complexity, beauty, and squalor, moving from the bottom rungs to the circles inhabited by the ultra-rich and everywhere in between.Praise for How to Kidnap the Rich''A satire on modern India...this isn''t a story about poverty, it''s a story about wealth'' Guardian''Conjures up a memorable world that is ghee-greased, polluted, mired in dust and corruption'' Sunday Times''Like Mohsin Hamid''s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, How to Kidnap the Rich purports to be a how-to manual but is in fact a rollicking urban adventure and a biting satire of inequality'' Economist

Naše katalógové číslo: 3550013

Originálny názov: How to Kidnap the Rich

Počet strán: 304

Väzba: pevná väzba

Rozmer: 244×165 mm

Hmotnosť: 544 g

ISBN: 9781408713341

Rok vydania: 2021

Jazyk: angličtina

Vydavateľstvo: Little, Brown

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