- Terrorism, Bombings, Victims of terrorism, Fiction
After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Karan Mahajan
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781409029670
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Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew up in New Delhi. A graduate of Stanford University, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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