01995cam a2200289 i 4500 11432 IN-BhIIT 20260507125839.0 140403s2014 nyu 000 c eng 9781250045553 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 823.92 SWA/A Swarup, Vikas, Author. 27566 The accidental apprentice : Imagine if you life changed in an instant / Vikas Swarup. New Delhi : Simon & schuster, 2013. 436 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "In life you never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. A business empire worth ten billion dollars. This is the tantalizing offer made by Vinay Mohan Acharya, one of India's richest men, to Sapna Sinha, a simple salesgirl in an electronics store in downtown Delhi. She can be the next CEO of his incredibly huge and profitable company. There is only one catch--she needs to pass seven tests from the "textbook of life." Thus begins the most challenging journey Sapna has ever undertaken, one that will take her from her swanky showroom to the heat and dust of India's backstreets and villages. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities, from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. But are the seven tests real or is Acharya playing a game driven by a perverse fantasy? Vikas Swarup, acclaimed author of Slumdog Millionaire and Six Suspects, has written a compelling, suspenseful tale about the lure of money and the power of dreams. The Accidental Apprentice is international crime fiction at its most entertaining"-- English fiction 10037 Women sales personnel Fiction. 27666 Chief executive officers Fiction. 27568 Life change events Fiction. 27569 Ambition Fiction. 27570 Fortune Fiction. 27571 GEN 1 15396 15396 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2026-02-19 46 374.25 1 2 823.92 SWA/A 11432 2026-08-08 2026-05-07 12:58:39 2026-05-07 499.00 2026-02-19 GEN