The Association of Small Bombs Contributor(s): Mahajan, Karan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143109278 ISBN-13: 9780143109273 Publisher: Penguin Books
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 990(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.3" W x 8.3" L (0.55 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
Features: Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: National Book Award Finalist "Brilliant." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "[Mahajan's] eagerness to go at the bomb from every angle suggests a voracious approach to fiction-making." --The New YorkerOne of the most celebrated novels of recent years, 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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