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Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Physical Education department of the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his little granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man corroded by a 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, possibly 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. Ram's struggle to survive, and make amends after a life of deception, thrusts him among gangsters and movie stars, into riots and morgues.
Akhil Sharma's characters, whether politicians, children, priests, or extortionists, are exactly rendered, full of pathos and absurdity. An Obedient Father takes the reader to a world that is both far away and as real as the headlines or the house across the street-and into the mind of a character as tormented, funny, and morally ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky's anti-heroes.
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Simon Spence
reviewed An obedient father on August 27, 2017
An obedient father
Gender equality demands that I now read a series of novels about vile and depraved women, say, Isla She-Wolf of the SS or Myra Hindley or…. well there must be some more. The list of novels about vile and depraved men is as long as the arm of a person with really long arms. And here is another. Well I should not complain, I knew the subject (father rapes daughter then 20 years later tries to abuse grand-daughter) already. But I had recently read Family Life, Akhil Sharma's excellent short novel about another type of personal catastrophe (severe brain damage). I hear Mr Sharma's next novel will be about getting your leg chewed off by a puma. Always look on the bright side of life, eh, Mr Sharma?
This one really defeated me with its unremitting misery. It's not badly written at all. It's probably a very good book. But whereas when you are a young person skipping is an indication of light-hearted joy, in an adult reader skipping is a sign of heavy-hearted irritation, and I did find myself skipping like a hopscotch player on a burning pavement. I need a break from these ghastly men.
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