Internationally acclaimed on publication, An Obedient Daughter takes the reader to an India that is both far away and real - into the mind of a character as tormented, funny and ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky's anti-heroes.When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram Karan, as his department's resident bribe-collector, is trapped in a series of escalating, potentially deadly political betrayals. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man corroded by a guilty secret.