Obedient Father

Corrosive, funny, and frightening--one of the most absorbing first novels, Akhil Sharma''s An Obedient Father.

"My general incompetence and laziness at work had been apparent for so long that I now think it was arrogant of Mr. Gupta to pick me as his money man. I am the type of person who does not make sure that a file includes all the pages it must have or that the pages are in the right order. I...