The Association of Small Bombs

Zusatztext National Book Award  Finalist “Wonderful. . . . Smart, devastating, unpredictable, and enviably adept in its handling of tragedy and its fallout. If you enjoy novels that happily disrupt traditional narratives—about grief, death, violence, politics—I suggest you go out and buy this one. Post haste.” —Fiona Maazel, The New York Times Book Review “Brilliant. . . . Mr. Mahajan’s writing is acrid and bracing, tightly packed with dissonant imagery. . . . The Association of Small Bombs is not the first novel about the aftermath of a terrorist attack, but it is the finest I’ve read at capturing the seduction and force of the murderous, annihilating illogic that increasingly consumes the globe.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “[Mahajan’s] eagerness to go at the bomb from every angle suggests a voracious approach to fiction-making, a daring imaginative promiscuity that moves beyond the scope of his first, very good novel, Family Planning . . . . Tragedy deepens Mahajan’s range. In the first few pages of his new novel, he renders the spectacle of the bombing with a languid, balletic beauty, pitting the unhurried composure of his prose against the violence of the events it describes. . . . Mahajan has a cinematic attunement to the spectacle of disaster, and he often focuses on the minor rather than the grandiose, to eerie effect.” —Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker “A deeply moving exploration of terrorism that destroys the tropes of the subcontinental novel. . . . In flitting between the perspectives of terrorists and victims, parents and children, Hindus and Muslims, Mahajan has committed to a radical and extended act of empathy. . . . Where other authors concede the clash between the West’s physicality and the East’s spiritualism, Mahajan deftly shows how fundamentally reliant each is on the other, and, consequently, how silly the binary truly is.” —Sharan Shetty, The Slate Book Review “A singularly intelligent novel.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Book Review “[A] beautifully written novel. . . . Ambitious. . . . Carries us deep into the human side of a tragedy. . . .” —The Washington Post “When two brothers are killed in an explosion in Delhi, it forever changes the lives of the boy who was with them, the parents who mourn them and the man who made the bomb.” — Time , “A Best Book of 2016 So Far” “A complex meditation on violence, fundamentalism and grief. . . . A superb novel. . . . A careful, discriminate and moral work of art.” —Luke Brown, Financial Times “A mind-blowing book on many, many levels. The characterisation is extraordinary. . . . A very extraordinary book.” —BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review “Even when handling the darkest material or picking through confounding emotional complexities, Mahajan maintains a light touch and a clarity of vision. . . . He is particularly adept at capturing the quicksilver shifts of mood that accompany states of high emotion. . . . Mahajan shows immense perspicacity in his handling of Deepa, and of the other women in the novel. . . . Mahajan’s novel is as much a chronicle of the cascading effects of the opening of India’s economy and the global response to 9/11 as it is about a bomb explosion in a down-at-heel neighborhood market. . . . In the end the Lajpat Nagar bomb, like the plot of a novel, is at the beck and call of the writer who conjured it. Except that instead of dooming his characters all at once, Mahajan picks them off with abrupt indifference, like a lone shooter, one by one.” —Deborah Baker, London Review of Books “The pitfalls of the terror novel are crudity, fetishization of the terrorist’s mind, and o...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karan Mahajan
• Editore: Penguin Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9780143109273
• ISBN: 978-0-14-310927-3
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 137 mm x 214 mm x 17 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi