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Explores human fallout from terrorism's touch.
This book delves courageously into the chaotic ripple effects of a single terrorist act, offering a mosaic of perspectives that humanize both victims and perpetrators. Your experience with "The Association of Small Bombs" won't just be about understanding tragedy, but about feeling the intricate web of emotions and intricacies Karan Mahajan deftly weaves. It's for anyone looking to grasp the profound, often overlooked, impacts of violence with a narrative that's as thought-provoking as it is heartrending.
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National Book Award Finalist
One of theNew York TimesBook Review s Ten Best Books of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2016
Named a Best Book of 2016 by: Buzzfeed, Esquire, Time magazine, The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Vulture.com, and PopSugar
Longlisted forthe FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award
Wonderful. . . . Smart, devastating, unpredictable, and enviably adept in its handling of tragedy and its fallout. If you enjoy novels that happily disrupt traditional narratives about grief, death, violence, politics I suggest you go out and buy this one. Post haste. Fiona Maazel, The New York Times Book Review
Brilliant. . . . Mr. Mahajan s writing is acrid and bracing, tightly packed with dissonant imagery. . . . The Association of Small Bombs is not the first novel about the aftermath of a terrorist attack, but it is the finest I ve read at capturing the seduction and force of the murderous, annihilating illogic that increasingly consumes the globe. Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
[Mahajan s] eagerness to go at the bomb from every angle suggests a voracious approach to fiction-making, a daring imaginative promiscuity that moves beyond the scope of his first, very good novel, Family Planning. The New Yorker
[A] beautifully written novel. . . . Ambitious. . . . Carries us deep into the human side of a tragedy. The Washington Post
For readers of Mohsin Hamid, Dave Eggers, Arundhati Roy, and Teju Cole, The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in its empathy, dazzling in its acuity, and ambitious in scope
When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family s television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. A bomb one of the many small bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the world detonates in the Delhi marketplace, instantly claiming the lives of the Khurana boys, to the devastation of their parents. Mansoor survives, bearing the physical and psychological effects of the bomb. After a brief stint at university in America, Mansoor returns to Delhi, where his life becomes entangled with the mysterious and charismatic Ayub, a fearless young activist whose own allegiances and beliefs are more malleable than Mansoor could imagine. Woven among the story of the Khuranas and the Ahmeds is the gripping tale of Shockie, a Kashmiri bomb maker who has forsaken his own life for the independence of his homeland.
Karan Mahajan writes brilliantly about the effects of terrorism on victims and perpetrators, proving himself to be one of the most provocative and dynamic novelists of his generation.
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Explores human fallout from terrorism's touch.
This book delves courageously into the chaotic ripple effects of a single terrorist act, offering a mosaic of perspectives that humanize both victims and perpetrators. Your experience with "The Association of Small Bombs" won't just be about understanding tragedy, but about feeling the intricate web of emotions and intricacies Karan Mahajan deftly weaves. It's for anyone looking to grasp the profound, often overlooked, impacts of violence with a narrative that's as thought-provoking as it is heartrending.
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