The Association of Small Bombs-炸弹联盟

作者：Karan Mahajan

书名：The Association of Small Bombs《炸弹联盟》

中文简介：怀揣着深深的同情，卡拉·马哈詹的The Association of Small Bombs《炸弹联盟》探索了恐怖袭击后受害者和行凶者的遭遇。当一系列小型炸弹在印度德里南部市场被引爆时，两个小男孩被炸死了，而他们幸免于难的同伴们却因此受到了心灵上的创伤。令人震惊、引人深思。本部小说是对人性、失去、悲痛、愧疚和救赎的反思。

英文简介：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—one of the many “small” bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the world—detonates 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.