An Obedient Father Author:Akhil Sharma ?A powerful debut novel that establishes Sharma as a supreme storyteller.??Philadelphia Inquirer Ram Karan, a corrupt official in New Delhi, lives with his widowed daughter and his little granddaughter. Bumbling, sad, ironic, Ram is also a man corroded by a terrible secret. Taking the reader down into a world of feuding families and politics, An... more » Obedient Father is a work of rare sensibilities that presents a character as formulated, funny, and morally ambiguous as any of Dostoevsky?s antiheroes.« less