| The Association of Small Bombs | |
| Author: | Karan Mahajan |
| Country: | United States |
| Publisher: | Viking Press |
| Pub Date: | 2016 |
| 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.