The Association of Small Bombs

First edition
Author	Karan Mahajan
Country	United States
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication 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]

Plot

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.

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