An Obedient Father

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. 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. 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.

• | Author: Akhil Sharma
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: May 07, 2015
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571313594
• | ISBN-10: 0571313590