“A bomb of small consequences.” But to some, those are catastrophic. The explosion, which kills 13, is a minor event historically-“A typical bomb,” Mr. The novel opens in 1996 with a marketplace bombing in New Delhi set by an Islamic insurgent group demanding Kashmir’s independence from India. But the power of this book comes from its depiction of a world scrambled and deconstructed by terrorism, where meaning and order exist nowhere but in illusions. We tend to believe that things are the other way around-that life is coherent while dreams are random and discontinuous. Like much in this brilliant, troubling novel, the line pulls you up short. ‘Life is fragmentary but dreams are not,” writes Karan Mahajan in “The Association of Small Bombs” (Viking, 276 pages, $26).
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