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An Obedient Father
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An Obedient Father Paperback - 2001

by Akhil Sharma


Summary

A stunning novel about family secrets, hailed nationwide
as a masterpiece.

Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the New Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his little granddaughter. Bumbling, sad, ironic, Ram is also a man corroded by a terrible secret. With the assassination of the politician Rajiv Gandhi, Ram is plunged into a series of escalating and possibly deadly political betrayals. As he tries to save his family, his daughter reveals a crime he had hoped was long buried-and Ram, struggling to survive, must make amends after a life of deception. Taking the reader deep into a world of Indian families and politics, gangsters and movie stars, riots and morgues, An Obedient Father is an astonishing fiction debut, a work of rare sensibilities that presents a character as tormented, funny, and morally ambiguous as one of Dostoyevsky's antiheroes.

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  • Title An Obedient Father
  • Author Akhil Sharma
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, N . Y.
  • Date 2001-11-05
  • ISBN 9780156012034 / 0156012030
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.51 x 0.96 in (20.47 x 14.00 x 2.44 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Political fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001039586
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

A stunning work that is both personal and political . . . perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote
The God of Small Things."-The Nation
The themes of crime and punishment that Sharma explores so tellingly make
the parallels with Dostoyevsky's masterpiece compelling and instructive. . . .
That this novel is a debut is an astonishment."-Dan Cryer, Newsday
A cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived portrait of a corrupt man
in a corrupt society."-Richard Eder, The New York Times

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