Obedient Father: A Novel
by Akhil Sharma
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0156012030
- ISBN 13
- 9780156012034
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DD0049022
- Title
- Obedient Father: A Novel
- Author
- Akhil Sharma
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0156012030
- ISBN 13
- 9780156012034
- Publisher
- Harvest Books
- Place of Publication
- N . Y.
- This edition first published
- 2001-11-05
Terms of Sale
Powell's Bookstores Chicago
All orders subject to previous sale. Domestic Standard ships USPS Bound Printed Matter; Domestic Expedited ships UPS Ground; International ships via Air courier. All orders over $200.00 upgraded to UPS Ground without additional charge.