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9780698407060
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" National Book Award FinalistWinner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Winner of the American Academy of Arts &,Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf AwardWinner of the Bard Fiction Prize One of the New York Times Book Review 's Ten Best Books of the YearOne of Granta 's Best Young American Novelists A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year PEN Center USA Literary Award Finalist for Fiction Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlisted 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 PopSugarWonderful. . Smart, devastating, unpredictable. . I suggest you go out and buy this one. Post haste. —,iona Maazel, The New York Times Book Review Brilliant. —,/b〉 Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal [Mahajan's] eagerness to go at the bomb from every angle suggests a voracious approach to fiction-making.—,/b〉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 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—,ne of the many small bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the world—,etonates 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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Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 25, 2016 The disintegration of the lives of both Hindus and Muslims affected by a bomb blast at Lajpat Market in Delhi in 1996 is the subject of Mahajan’s second novel (after Family Planning ). In the aftermath of the violence we follow not only a Muslim boy who survives, Mansoor Ahmed, but his parents,the Hindu parents of Mansoor’s two friends killed in the blast,the bomb maker, named “Shockie”,and several activists who seek justice after the tragedy. The lives of Mansoor’s parents and the dead brothers’ mother and father unravel, their careers and marriages frayed by grief and anxiety. Mansoor tries to concentrate on his studies in the States, but returns to India and falls in with a charismatic activist called Ayub, soon to be unhinged by a breakup with his upper-class girlfriend. Mahajan’s talent is in conveying the sense that the world is gray, not black-and-white, and he accomplishes this by weaving together the evolving motives and passions of his characters so intricately that in the end we see each as culpable, and human. In his searing story, lives (and life itself) are subjected to close inspection and at times discombobulation." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 1, 2016 A terrorist bombing in Delhi powers this exploration of radicalization, politics, and religion. The second novel by Mahajan (Family Planning, 2008) turns on two families transformed by a 1996 explosion in an open-air market. The Khuranas, who are Hindu, lost two young sons in the blast, while the neighboring Ahmeds, who are Muslim, nearly lost their son, Mansoor. Though Mansoor was not religious growing up, he still absorbs the prejudices of Indians and, later, the Americans he meets as a college student in the United States. He survived the bombing but suffered wrist injuries that make it all but impossible for him to pursue a career as a programmer. From such frustrations, Mahajan suggests, are the seeds of terrorism sown. (Sexual repression and unrequited love play no small roles, too.) Though Mansoor is the focus, Mahajan ably shifts the point of view to the killed boys' father, Vikas, who tries to channel his mourning into a documentary,Shockie, the bomb maker worn down by his job,and Ayub, a Muslim activist whose nonviolent sympathies slowly erode. Mahajan's effort to make a thriller out of the story, climaxing in another bombing attempt, can feel pat--he oversells the point that radicalism makes for unlikely bedfellows. But he's strong at exploring the very long shockwaves of small-scale violence: though the market bombings in India don't kill as many as 9/11, Mahajan argues that they have a more devastating cruelty for upending lives to no useful political purpose. Small bombs concentrate the pain on the lives of a few, one radical says. Better to kill generously. The wrong conclusion, of course, but the novel shows how some arrive at such callous postures. An engaging if plot-thick novel that's alert to the intersection of the emotional and political. COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.slj.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/schoollibraryjournal_logo.png alt=School Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 1, 2016 Just as the author describes a market in Delhi, this novel begins everywhere at once. Readers are immediately thrown into urban India, piecing together the important players of this drama. Mahajan begins the novel by describing a singular, almost routine event of 1996: a car bomb in a crowded Delhi marketplace. In the years that follow, the lives of a survivor, the family of two deceased boys, and the bombers themselves become intertwined. For the most part, the story takes place in India, and readers could easily become bogged down with unfamiliar terminology in the first third of the book. However, the narrative begins to pick up speed when Mansoor, the bomb survivor and a Muslim, leaves India to pursue his education in the United States. He returns to his homeland because of medical concerns complicated by his injuries from the bombing. Teens will be interested in the change Mansoor undergoes after his return to Dehli and intrigued by the human side of both the bombers and those affected by this act of violence. VERDICT Purchase where there is a demand for titles set in India or an interest in antiheroes.- Krystina Kelley, Belle Valley School, Belleville, ILCopyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
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Auszeichnungen: The New York Times:10 Best Books of 2016
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