An Obedient Father
by Akhil Sharma
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0571313590
- ISBN 13
- 9780571313594
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Synopsis
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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- Ria Christie Collections (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- An Obedient Father
- Author
- Akhil Sharma
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571313590
- ISBN 13
- 9780571313594
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber Fiction
- This edition first published
- 2015
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