· THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS By Karan Mahajan pp. Viking. $ Allow me to skip the prelude to judgment that usually begins a book review, and just get right to it: Karan Mahajan’s second Author: Fiona Maazel. I loved Karan Mahajan's first novel 'Family Planning' and thought it was very funny. I suspect I was expecting rather more humour in 'The Association of Small Bombs' - a book which turns out to be unremittingly serious and quite heavy/5(). Karan Mahajan explodes the notion that anything or anyone is truly mundane, perforates the border between perpetrator and victim, and cautions us that weapons have no masters. media. Karan Mahajan reads from The Association of Small Bombs, NBAs Finalists bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.
"With The Association of Small Bombs [Mahajan] may well have moved into the upper reaches of contemporary fiction." —Flavorwire, Most Anticipated Books of "In this fine novel, Karan Mahajan has achieved a brilliant and distinctive success. The Association of Small Bombs. by Karan Mahajan. Sold out. Quick take. A novel that takes us all the way around the bombing, a story about the lives of the victims, the survivors and the bomber. A novel about India that is a novel about the world. Why I love it. Alexander Chee Author. THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS By Karan Mahajan pp. Viking. $ Allow me to skip the prelude to judgment that usually begins a book review, and just get right to it: Karan Mahajan's second.
“ The Association of Small Bombs is a brilliant examination of aftermath, how life is built of consequences, both imagined and unimagined, the tight web of human life and human sympathy. Karan Mahajan knows everyone, on every side of a detonation: the lost, the grieving, the innocent, the guilty, the damaged. It’s hilarious and also devastating. THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS By Karan Mahajan pp. Viking. $ Allow me to skip the prelude to judgment that usually begins a book review, and just get right to it: Karan Mahajan’s second. This demarcation of life into before and after isn’t just because the attack was so large, but because it was on American soil — “never again” was the obvious, instinctive reaction to such an enormous loss of our country’s citizens. As one of the primary characters of Karan Mahajan’s latest novel, The Association of Small Bombs, puts it, “People did not care about a small bomb in a foreign country that had injured a Muslim, and why should they?.
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