Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma grew up in Delhi and in Edison, New Jersey. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Family Life, received the International Dublin Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His stories, collected in A Life of Adventure and Delight, have appeared in the New Yorker and in Best American Short Stories. He lives and teaches in Durham, North Carolina.
Akhil Sharma
Newly revised with a foreword by the author
“Sharma depicts a country that could have sprung from a mind poised somewhere between Dostoevsky’s and Gogol’s . . . [An] audacious yet plausible portrayal of a vividly unsympathetic character . . . Sharma’s genius in this novel is how he makes the personal and political reflect on each other.” —Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
A radically revised edition of Sharma’s powerful debut: “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)