An Obedient Father by Sharma, Akhil

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Author: Sharma, Akhil

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 7 May 2015 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
200 x 129 x 21 | 226g

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.