The Association of Small Bombs Karan Mahajan

Introduction

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.

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 the victims, their families, and the perpetrators.[3]

Plot

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.

References
  1. ^ Fallon, Claire (March 18, 2016). "The Bottom Line: 'The Association of Small Bombs' By Karan Mahajan". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  2. ^ Shetty, Sharan (April 6, 2016). "After the Blast". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  3. ^ Sacks, Sam (March 18, 2016). "Fiction Chronicle: A Typical Bomb". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 4, 2016.

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