Bøger af Karan Mahajan

National Book AwardFinalistWinner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardWinner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation AwardWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf AwardWinner of the Bard FictionPrizeOne of theNew York TimesBook Review's Ten Best Books of the YearOne of Granta's Best Young American NovelistsA Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the YearPEN Center USA Literary Award Finalist for FictionSimpson Family Literary Prize FinalistShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureLonglisted forthe FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by:Buzzfeed,Esquire,New York magazine,The Huffington Post, The Guardian,The AV Club, The Fader,Redbook,Electric Literature, Book Riot, Bustle, Good magazine,PureWow, and PopSugar';Wonderful. . . . Smart, devastating, unpredictable. . . . I suggest you go out and buy this one. Post haste.'Fiona Maazel,The New York Times Book Review';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 YorkerFor readers of Mohsin Hamid, Dave Eggers, Arundhati Roy, and Teju Cole, 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 scopeWhen 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 bombone of the many ';small' bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the worlddetonates 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.

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2016A New York Times Notable Book of 2016On a hot May day in 1996 a car bomb detonates in a Delhi marketplace. Young bomb maker Shockie, striving for the future independence of his Kashmiri homeland, is also in Delhi that day, and afterwards will be inextricably linked to the blast.

Mr Ahuja, Delhi's Minister of Urban Development, has too much on his hands: thirteen children and another on the way. This uproarious debut follows father and son as they blunder their way over and under the flyovers of the megalopolis in a moving - and fast-moving - comic portrait of modern family life.