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Chargement... How to Kidnap the Rich (2021)par Rahul Raina
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A distinctly Indian dark comedy. ( ) How to describe this book? It's a satire, a biting social critique, a caper, an inventive thriller, an excoriating portrait of Modi's India (with occasional digs at American culture). It's funny, propulsive, and often moving in spite of a madcap plot and a furiously sarcastic narrator. Ramesh Kumar tells his story in a unique voice, one laced with irony, anger, and irrepressible humor. After a brutal childhood in Delhi, beaten and exploited by his often-drunk chaiwallah (tea seller) father, he is taken up as a good cause by a French nun teaching at a Catholic school that, it turns out, does not want charity cases mingling with their upper-crust students. He's clever and she prepares him well to take the All India exam, one that determines who will succeed in life, but he needs money for her care after she is dismissed from the school and falls ill. The only way to earn that money quickly is to take the exam - in place of a student who wants success without the work. Ramesh finds enough wealthy parents desperate to secure a good university place and a career for their spoiled children that he carves out a specialty as an "educational consultant" in the brains black market. With a slick sales job and weeks of intense study, he is able to sit exams as a service – until he takes the seat of the sluggish, spoiled, but wealthy Rudi Saxena and creates a sudden problem: he earns the top score in the nation. Rudi is inundated with attention and is brought in to star in a television trivia game show where he is meant to be the "Topper" – the man with all the answers. Ramesh, who is terrified of being caught out, becomes his "manager" who, backstage, whispers the right answers in his ear. Despite his oafishness, Rudi becomes a favorite of Indian aunties and something of a hero. This causes Rudi and Ramesh to be kidnapped for a large ransom. There's a double cross, followed by another kidnapping and pretty soon kidnapping appears to be the most logical answer to every twist in the plot. There's action, romance, political commentary, and loads of slapstick comedy, but above all the novel is an excoriating picture of contemporary India, where inequality grows and the wealthy exhibit the worst impulses of Western late capitalism combined with India's pre-existing conditions. Perhaps it's unsurprising that, with such a spicy masala on offer, HBO has already optioned it for film. HOW TO KIDNAP THE RICH is an impressive and original debut by a twenty-eight-year-old writer who has his finger on the pulse of the Indian nation and a talent for mixing laugh-out-loud lines and over-the-top action with vivid depictions of life drawn in sharp-edged critique. Reposted from Reviewing the Evidence. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: "A raucous novel, narrated in deadpan voice-over by Ramesh, a self-described 'lower lower middle class' 24-year-old scammer. . . . His perspective is a delight. . . . a tartly entertaining novel, a potential summer blockbuster." â??New York Times Book Review A fresh look at modern-day India hailed as "a monstrously funny and unpredictable wild ride" by Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy The first kidnapping wasn't my fault. The othersâ??those were definitely me. Brilliant yet poor, Ramesh Kumar grew up working at his father's tea stall in the Old City of Delhi. Now, he makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India's eliteâ??a situation that becomes complicated 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, thanks to him. Ramesh sees an opportunityâ??perhaps even an obligationâ??to cash in on Rudi's newfound celebrity, not knowing that Rudi's role on a game show will lead to unexpected love, followed by wild trouble when both young men are kidnapped. But Ramesh outwits the criminals who've abducted them, turning the tables and becoming a kidnapper himself. As he 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. A caper, social satire, and love story rolled into one, How to Kidnap the Rich is a wild ride told by a mesmerizing new talent with an elect Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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