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An Obedient Father

An Obedient Father

by Akhil Sharma (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.34

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

Internationally acclaimed on publication, An Obedient Daughter takes the reader to an India that is both far away and real - into the mind of a character as tormented, funny and ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky's anti-heroes.When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram Karan, as his department's resident bribe-collector, is trapped in a series of escalating, potentially deadly political betrayals. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man corroded by a guilty secret.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 Jan 2002
ISBN 10: 0571206786
ISBN 13: 9780571206780
Book Overview: An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma is a subtly rendered tragicomedy of contemporary India by an enormously gifted young writer.

Media Reviews
'Sharma's prose crackles with immediacy, shimmers with sensuality. His vision is as intense as that of an exile yearning for home. Karan may be a monstrous man... but when it comes to his environment, Sharma gifts him with the eyes of a poet.' Financial Times 'A subtly rendered, marvellously detailed tragicomedy of contemporary India by an enormously gifted writer.' Joyce Carol Oates 'In Karan, Sharma has created an iconic character in South Asian literature: a cross between Jubba the Hut and Uriah Heep.' Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007.