An Obedient Father

An Obedient Father is a novel by Akhil Sharma. It received the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award[1] and Whiting Writers' Award. Set during the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the story is about a corrupt and loathsome bag man who lives with his daughter and granddaughter in a New Delhi slum. The novel started as a short story that was previously published.

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  1. ↑ List of Hemingway/PEN winners, accessed 5 Aug 2010.


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