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by Akhil Sharma
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- Title An Obedient Father
- Author Akhil Sharma
- Binding Papeback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Thomson Learning , N . Y.
- Date pp. 300
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6661963
- 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
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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.
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.