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Availability:In StockContributor:Akhil SharmaSeries:McNally EditionsPublish date:2022-07-12Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:McNally EditionsISBN-13:9781946022387ISBN-10:1946022381UPC:9781946022387Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Political, Family LifeSize:8.40 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCPTN5KEQQ
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:McNally EditionsISBN-13:9781946022387ISBN-10:1946022381UPC:9781946022387Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Political, Family LifeSize:8.40 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCPTN5KEQQ
Sharma, Akhil: - 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. Sharma lives and teaches in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Publisher: McNally Editions

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