{"product_id":"an-obedient-father-9781946022387","title":"An Obedient Father","description":"\u003cb\u003eRevised 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecried 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSharma, Akhil:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAkhil Sharma\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Delhi and in Edison, New Jersey. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eAn Obedient Father\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e won the 2001 PEN\/Hemingway Award. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eFamily Life\u003c\/i\u003e, received the International Dublin Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His stories, collected in \u003ci\u003eA Life of Adventure and Delight\u003c\/i\u003e, have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Sharma lives and teaches in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646142026002,"sku":"9781946022387","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14bf5a0e-ab75-4ab7-baf4-fb9d0669d938.jpg?v=1733170682","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-obedient-father-9781946022387","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}