| Автор: Sharma Akhil
Название: An Obedient Father
ISBN: 0571210384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571210381
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 791.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man tortured by a terrible 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, potentially 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. "An Obedient Father" takes the reader to an India that is both far away and real - into the mind of a character as tormented, funny, and morally ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky's anti-heroes. This is a subtly rendered tragicomedy of contemporary India by an enormously gifted young writer.
|
