An obedient father /
Sharma, Akhil,
An obedient father / Akhil Sharma. - Paperback edition. - London : Faber & Faber, 2015. - 282 pages ; 20 cm.
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award.
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, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man tortured by a terrible guilty secret. When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram, as his department's resident bribe-collector, is trapped in a series of escalating, potentially deadly political betrayals. While he tries to protect himself and his family, his daughter reveals a crime that he had hoped would be buried forever.
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. --Cover.
0571313590 9780571313594
Political corruption--India--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--India--Delhi--Fiction.
Political corruption--Fiction.
India--Social life and customs--Fiction.--20th century
India--Politics and government--1977---Fiction.
Delhi (India)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
SHA
An obedient father / Akhil Sharma. - Paperback edition. - London : Faber & Faber, 2015. - 282 pages ; 20 cm.
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award.
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, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man tortured by a terrible guilty secret. When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram, as his department's resident bribe-collector, is trapped in a series of escalating, potentially deadly political betrayals. While he tries to protect himself and his family, his daughter reveals a crime that he had hoped would be buried forever.
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. --Cover.
0571313590 9780571313594
Political corruption--India--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--India--Delhi--Fiction.
Political corruption--Fiction.
India--Social life and customs--Fiction.--20th century
India--Politics and government--1977---Fiction.
Delhi (India)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
SHA
