An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma Paperback Book 9780571313594

Ram Karan a corrupt official in the Delhi school system lives in one of the citys slums with his widowed daughter and his eightyearold granddaughter 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 Dostoevskys antiheroes