The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

One of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists'Īmerican Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award One of the New York Times Book Review's '10 Best Books of 2016' Order: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, Books-a-Million, IndieBound, and iBooks Published in 2016 in the US, India, and the UK. 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. 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.

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. Mansoor survives, bearing the physical and psychological effects of the bomb. 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. 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. 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

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan