An Obedient Father (eBook)

Akhil Sharma (Autor)

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2022
256 Seiten
McNally Editions (Verlag)
978-1-946022-39-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.7.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: a life of adventure and delight • amitava kumar • Arundhati Roy • banned books • Black Humor • Child Abuse • controversial novels • Culture Clash • Dark comedy • Delhi • dostoevsky • family life • Family Saga • Folio Prize • Ganges • Indian American writers • Indian authors • International DUBLIN Literary Award • J. M. Coetzee • karam • Morality • Novels set in India • PEN/Hemingway Award • racial tension • Raj Kamal Jha • religious bigotry • Superstition • The Blue Bedspread • The God of Small Things • Toxic Masculinity • unlikeable characters • unsympathetic main character
• ISBN-10: 1-946022-39-X / 194602239X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946022-39-4 / 9781946022394