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Author | Karan Mahajan |
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Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 2016 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 288 pages |
ISBN | 978-0-525-42963-0 |
The Association of Small Bombs is a 2016 novel by Indian-American author and novelist Karan Mahajan. [1] The novel is Mahajan's second, after 2012's Family Planning, and was first published in 2016 by Viking Press. [2] The novel was named a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. It was met with positive reviews. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The novel opens with a bombing in a New Delhi marketplace in 1996 and explores the resultant trauma caused by the attack, examining it from the perspective of both the victims, their families, and the perpetrators. [7]
The novel opens with the detonation of a bomb by a Kashmiri man, Shockie. The bomb kills thirteen and injures a further thirty. The remainder of the novel alternates between the perspective of Shockie, those who were injured, and those who lost family in the explosion.
![]() First edition | |
Author | Karan Mahajan |
---|---|
Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 2016 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 288 pages |
ISBN | 978-0-525-42963-0 |
The Association of Small Bombs is a 2016 novel by Indian-American author and novelist Karan Mahajan. [1] The novel is Mahajan's second, after 2012's Family Planning, and was first published in 2016 by Viking Press. [2] The novel was named a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. It was met with positive reviews. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The novel opens with a bombing in a New Delhi marketplace in 1996 and explores the resultant trauma caused by the attack, examining it from the perspective of both the victims, their families, and the perpetrators. [7]
The novel opens with the detonation of a bomb by a Kashmiri man, Shockie. The bomb kills thirteen and injures a further thirty. The remainder of the novel alternates between the perspective of Shockie, those who were injured, and those who lost family in the explosion.