Sharma, Akhil
Summary: As an inspector for the Physical Education Department in the Delhi school system, Ram Karan supports his widowed daughter and eight-year-old granddaughter by collecting bribes for a small-time Congress Party boss. On the eve of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, one reckless act bares the lifetime of violence and sexual shame behind Ram's dingy public career and involves him in a farcical, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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Summary: Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAContents: Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005