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'''''An Obedient Father''''' is a 2000 novel by [[Akhil Sharma]]. It received the 2001 [[Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award]]<ref>[http://pen-ne.org/hemwinners List of Hemingway/PEN winners]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, accessed 5 Aug 2010.</ref> 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.<br />
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In his interview for the ''[[Paris Review]]'''s series "[[My First Time (film series)|My First Time]]", Sharma described creating his main character as "looking for someone who was guilty appropriately... There's that Henry James quote that 'it doesn't matter if a character is good or bad, it matters if the character is interesting.' So that's how I began to figure how to write about someone like (the main character)."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSyhlFwZip8&t=23s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/DSyhlFwZip8 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Akhil Sharma's First Time |publisher=YouTube |date=2016-08-15 |access-date=2017-06-24}}{{cbignore}}</ref><br />
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In July 2022, McNally Editions published a considerably revised, shorter edition of the novel, with a very different ending.<ref>[https://www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/obedient-father McNally Editions web page for An Obedient Father], accessed July 13, 2022</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/magazine/akhil-sharma-an-obedient-father.html His First Novel Was a Critical Hit. Two Decades Later, He Rewrote It], accessed July 13, 2022</ref> <br />
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