An Obedient Father

An Obedient Father

by Akhil Sharma
An Obedient Father

An Obedient Father

by Akhil Sharma

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Overview

Revised and featuring a new foreword by the author, this uncompromising novel returns, more powerful than ever: "A portrait of a country ravaged by vendetta and graft, its public spaces loud with the complaints of religious bigots and its private spaces cradling unspeakable pain." (Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books)

An Obedient Father introduced one of the most admired voices in contemporary fiction. Set in Delhi in the 1990s, it tells the story of an inept bureaucrat enmired in corruption, and of the daughter who alone knows the true depth of his crimes. Decried in India for its frank treatment of child abuse, the novel was widely praised elsewhere for its compassion, and for a plot that mingled the domestic with the political, tragedy with farce. Yet, as Akhil Sharma writes in his foreword to this new edition, he was haunted by what he considered shortcomings within the book: almost twenty years later, he returned to face them. Here is the result, a leaner, surer version with even greater power.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781946022387
Publisher: McNally Editions
Publication date: 07/12/2022
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 663,973
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Akhil Sharma grew up in Delhi and in Edison, New Jersey. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Family Life, received the International Dublin Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His stories, collected in A Life of Adventure and Delight, have appeared in the New Yorker and in Best American Short Stories. He lives and teaches in Durham, North Carolina.

What People are Saying About This

Joyce Carol Oates

A subtly rendered, marvelously detailed tragicomedy of contemporary India by an enormously gifted young writer.

R. Z. Sheppard

An Indian family novel that should appeal to anyone with a taste for red-blooded American realism and farce. [Sharma's] narrator, Ram Karan, a corrupt inspector for the Delhi school system, is a self-pitying moral sloth whom Mark Twain would have recognized in a Missouri minute.

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