An Obedient Father

An Obedient Father

by Akhil Sharma (Author)

Synopsis

Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, contradictory, sad, Ram is a man corroded by a guilty secret. An Obedient Father 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 May 2015

ISBN 10: 0571313590
ISBN 13: 9780571313594
Book Overview: A classic novel from the author of Family Life.

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.