An Obedient Father

When the past refuses to stay buried, even the most fragile lies collapse under their own weight.

Ram Karan is a corrupt bureaucrat in New Delhi, a man who has learned to survive by compromise, greed, and moral decay. But when his widowed daughter and granddaughter return to live with him, the sins he has long concealed claw their way to the surface. The family home becomes a claustrophobic arena where silence, resentment, and trauma collide and where the past demands a reckoning he can no longer escape.

Sharma’s prose is taut and unflinching, cutting through the layers of denial and shame that Karan hides behind. The novel’s darkness is not born of monsters or superstition, but of the human heart and the legacy of abuse. Each chapter draws the reader deeper into the uneasy atmosphere of a man cornered by his own guilt, revealing how power, silence, and complicity poison the most sacred bonds.

Bleak yet devastatingly honest, An Obedient Father is a portrait of corruption both public and private, a study of how cycles of violence and complicity pass through generations. It is a book that unsettles, confronts, and lingers—forcing us to look where we might prefer to turn away.

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