When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family's television set from a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. A bomb - one of the many 'small' ones that go off seemingly unheralded across the world - detonates in the Delhi marketplace, instantly claiming the lives of the Khurana boys. Mansoor survives, bearing the physical and psychological effects of the bomb. 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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Karan Mahajan grew up in New Delhi and moved to the US for university. His first novel, Family Planning, was a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and was published in nine countries. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker online, The Believer, and elsewhere.
There have been a surge of patriotic books lately but this book is something at a different level. It is one of those books that depict the version of repercussions in the lives of victims, survivors, kins and terrorist equally. With the splendid narration author has set a benchmark for himself. The characters are all constructed brilliantly. Readers can relate with the feelings. It's about moving on, coping up and above all resurrection. Bomb as a human being is an ingenious metaphor. In an...
An utterly brilliant, devastating book.unpredictable story packed with thoughtful, touching and heartbreak on account of marketplace bombings reviling the reality of dark. A must read novel.