A Delhi Bombing Survivor Becomes Entangled with a Kashmiri Terrorist

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 17, 2016

After a young man named Mansoor survives a small bomb explosion in Delhi that kills two of his friends in 1996, he spends the rest of his life reeling from the physical and psychological trauma of the attack. Karan Mahajan joins us to talk about his novel The Association of Small Bombs which looks at how terrorism affects the lives of individuals in unexpected ways.

Event: Karan Marajan will be doing a Q&A with Joshua Cohen followed by a signing at BookCourt (163 Court St. Brooklyn) on March 23rd at 7 p.m. 

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