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Karan Mahajan

Biography

Karan Mahajan

Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew up in New Delhi, India. His first novel, FAMILY PLANNING, was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and published in nine countries. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR’s All Things Considered, The New Yorker online, The Believer, The Paris Review Daily and Bookforum. A graduate of Stanford University and the Michener Center for Writers, he lives in Austin, Texas.

Karan Mahajan

Books by Karan Mahajan

The Association of Small Bombs
by Karan Mahajan - Fiction

When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana 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 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 Ayub, a fearless young activist whose own allegiances and beliefs are more malleable than Mansoor could imagine.

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