For readers of Mohsin Hamid, Dave Eggers, Arundhati Roy, and Teju Cole, The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in its empathy, dazzling in its acuity, and ambitious in scope
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.
發表於2024-12-22
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活著的,死去的,受害者,施暴者,所有人都淪陷在這個漩渦裏,漸漸麵目模糊,終於不分彼此。
評分FM 對於第二次爆炸襲擊著實難以理解,如果“美其名曰”,爆炸之後人性的扭麯可以成立的話。diss甘地的非暴力,而選擇通過新的爆炸的方式,來引起世人的注意——這跟輿論對極端穆斯林的“偏見”有什麼差異?但小說至少從幾個維度展示瞭什麼是死:1)死是被遺忘。而人,尤其是從最廣泛意義的同胞群體的角度而言,是最健忘的。你想想就連vaccine的問題都僅僅隻持續瞭兩天的熱度,而讓位於metoo(當然,我不是苛責後者,也無資格這樣做)和skr。就像《尋夢環遊記》所呈現的,最後一個記得你的人死去,你就死瞭。2)早在德裏爆炸案發生的時候,我們的幸存者——主人公就已然死去——雖然他的肉體活著。讓人不禁聯想到《野蠻大陸》中的描述。不要以為奧斯維辛之後,還有生還者,活著的,不過是另一種方式的死。
評分活著的,死去的,受害者,施暴者,所有人都淪陷在這個漩渦裏,漸漸麵目模糊,終於不分彼此。
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評分以一場“小型”恐怖襲擊引齣印度宗教衝突的大話題。受害者、幸存者、恐怖分子以及旁觀衝突的NGO誌願者,沒有一方逃得齣這個漩渦。Karan Mahajan寫活瞭德裏的聲與色、無序即有序。小人物們的命運被淹沒在噪聲和汙染中,“冷漠”是這座城市唯一的態度。
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