An Obedient Father,Akhil Sharma- 9780571313594

Akhil Sharma

An Obedient Father\nby Akhil Sharma\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Akhil Sharma\nTitle: An Obedient Father\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary\nPublisher: Faber & Faber\nEdition: Main\nISBN-13: 9780571313594\nISBN-10: 0571313590\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nRam 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 ambig.