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.
| ISBN: | 9780571313594 |
| Publication date: | 7th May 2015 |
| Author: | Akhil Sharma |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |