Slumdog Millionaire -Winner of Eight Academy Awards Including Best Picture
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On March 24, 2009, simultaneous with the Fox Films DVD edition, BBC Audiobooks America will release this vibrant audio recording of Vikas Swarup’s critically acclaimed novel Q & A, the basis for the multiple Academy Award–winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. With eight Oscars™ for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Original Song, Film Editing, Score, and Sound Mixing, Slumdog Millionaire has become the fourth-highest Oscar™-winning film of all time (tied with Gandhi) and has captured hearts the world over.
Now experience an inspired audio performance by narrator Christopher Simpson of this heartwarming story starring 18-year-old Jamal, a penniless waiter from the slums of Mumbai, who snags top prize on the game show Who Will Win a Billion? only to be framed by the show’s producers and arrested for cheating. The rags-to-riches story gives way to a great romance as Jamal’s true quest is not for fame and fortune but to be reunited with his childhood love, Latika.
Unabridged ON SALE MARCH 24, 2009
9 CDs 978-1-60283-466-8 $29.95
Digital Download 978-1-60283-467-5 $25.95
An abridged version of Q & A is also available.
Abridged AVAILABLE NOW (AS Q & A)
5 CDs 978-1-57270-487-9 $27.95
Digital Download 978-1-57270-487-9 $19.95
About BBC Audiobooks America
BBC Audiobooks America is a leading publisher of bestselling single-voice and full-cast dramatized audiobooks through its BBC Audio and BBC Radio imprints, and has a library of more than 3,000 audio titles under its Sound Library, BBC Radio Collection and Chivers Audio Books institutional imprints. The publisher has won multiple Audie Awards, including Audiobook of the Year in 2006 for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase; in 2008, Roots captured an Audie Award and a Ben Franklin Award for nonfiction audiobook, in addition to being designated one of the top six audiobooks of the year for 2007 by Publishers Weekly. BBC Audiobooks America distributes product direct to libraries across North America and to consumers via Perseus Distribution. For more information, visit our website: BBCAudiobooksAmerica.com.
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