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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.

An Obedient Father

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    A Paperback / softback by Akhil Sharma

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 May 2015
      ISBN-13 9780571313594
      978-0571313594
      ISBN-10 571313590

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

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