In 1996, three young friends set off on an errand to pick up
a repaired television. A small bomb is
detonated in the Delhi market where the repair shop is located. Only one child comes back. Among the few dozen killed are the sons of Vikas
and Deepa Khurana, who are Hindu. Their
Muslim neighbor’s son, Mansoor Ahmed, survives.
This compelling and timely novel follows the survivors, the Khuranas and
the Ahmeds; the Kashmiri bombmaker; and the individual who set the bomb off,
over the ensuing years as the detonation echoes through time. It’s not a big event, or particularly newsworthy
to any but those affected, but the author makes in emblematic of our times as
he interweaves the stories of the victims and the perpetrators in the complex
web of terrorism and its roots. 276 pp.
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