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The Great Railway Bazaar
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The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux’s account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes – the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the Trans-Siberian Express – it describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. Here he overhears snippets of chat and occasional monologues, and is drawn into conversation with fellow passengers, from Molesworth, a British theatrical agent, and Sadik, a shabby Turkish tycoon, while avoiding the forceful approaches of pimps and drug dealers.
This wonderfully entertaining travelogue pays loving tribute to the romantic joys of railways and train travel.
- Forfatter: Paul Theroux
- Publisert: 2008
- Antall sider: 400
- Innbinding: Heftet
- Språk: Engelsk
- ISBN: 9780141189147
Q & A (Slumdog Millionaire)
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Why is a penniless waiter from Mumbai sitting in a prison cell?
Is it because: a) he has punched a customer; b) he has drunk too much whisky; c) he has taken money from the till; or d: is he is the biggest quiz-show winner in history?
Is it because: a) he has punched a customer; b) he has drunk too much whisky; c) he has taken money from the till; or d: is he is the biggest quiz-show winner in history?
Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested. For answering twelve questions correctly on Who Will Win A Billion? Because a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school cannot know the name of the President of America, or the location of the Pyramids, or the plays of Shakespeare. Unless he has cheated.
Rescued from the police cell by a lawyer, Ram reviews television footage of his flawless performance and takes us on an amazing tour of his life – from the day he is salvaged from a dustbin, to his employment with a faded Bollywood star, to meeting a security-crazed Australian colonel, by way of a career as an over-creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal, to falling in love with Nita, a young prostitute. Passed from pillar to post for eighteen years, Ram’s instinct for strategy and survival is infallible.
Rescued from the police cell by a lawyer, Ram reviews television footage of his flawless performance and takes us on an amazing tour of his life – from the day he is salvaged from a dustbin, to his employment with a faded Bollywood star, to meeting a security-crazed Australian colonel, by way of a career as an over-creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal, to falling in love with Nita, a young prostitute. Passed from pillar to post for eighteen years, Ram’s instinct for strategy and survival is infallible.
- Forfatter: Vikas Swarup
- Publisert: 2006
- Antall sider: 382
- ISBN: 9780552772501