Akhil Sharma è un banchiere e un uomo d'affari nato a Delhi nel 1971, si è trasferito a soli otto anni in America, dove ora vive, nella Grande Mela.
Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi, India and moved to Edison, New Jersey when he was eight years old. He received a B.A. in public policy from Princeton, spent one year as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford, and graduated from Harvard Law School. He is a 29 year old investment banker and lives in New York City.
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Somehow Sharma has also managed to publish his stories in The New Yorker, The Quarterly, Fiction, the Best American Short Stories anthology, and the O. Henry Award Winners anthology.
The Philadelphia Inquirer called Sharma's first novel, "An Obedient Father," (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) "a powerful debut novel that establishes Sharma as a supreme storyteller with a gift for the macabre." The book shocks readers with one of the most loathsome narrators they are likely to encounter, a pot-bellied pedophiliac who bribes schoolmasters and channels the money to corrupt government officials. Set against the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, Sharma's novel reveals an India so politically corrupt that its vileness seeps into the moral fiber of its citizens. |