{"product_id":"how-to-kidnap-the-rich","title":"How to Kidnap the Rich","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf 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 forand How to Kidnap the Rich'A satire on modern India...this isn't a story about poverty, it's a story about wealth'and Guardian'Conjures up a memorable world that is ghee-greased, polluted, mired in dust and corruption'and Sunday Times'Like Mohsin Hamid'sand How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia,and How to Kidnap theand Richand purports to be a how-to manual but is in fact a rollicking urban adventure and a biting satire of inequality'and Economist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rahul Raina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44230767771708,"sku":"9780349144375","price":1270.75,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/How_20to_20Kidnap_20the_20Rich.jpg?v=1776780463","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-kidnap-the-rich","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}