Come join us for a sparkling evening of ideas and conversation with Dharini Bhaskar and Karan Mahajan about his new book The Complex.
Here are the event details:
Date: 9th May, Saturday
Time: 6:00 pm (Seating begins at 5:45 pm)
Venue: Champaca, Vasanth Nagar
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About the Book:
In Delhi, in the 1970s, the sons and daughters of S.P. Chopra, one of India’s political architects, live together in a sprawling complex—A-19 Modern Colony—vying for influence in a family shaped by the great man’s legacy. By the end of the decade, the
descendants are scrambling to define their own futures in a still-young nation on the brink of transformation. Newlyweds Gita and Sachin Chopra immigrate to America, believing it’s the only way to escape the pressure cooker that is Sachin’s prominent family. Yet Delhi remains an inescapable force, one that keeps pulling them back, even as Gita is menaced by Sachin’s predatory uncle, Laxman. A man of restless ambition, Laxman ascends the ranks of a rising Hindu nationalist movement, while Vibha, his sister, tries to keep the peace and the reputation of the family intact. As India erupts in violence in the 1990s, and Laxman gains power, The Complex compels one to ask: Could the ferment in A-19 reflect the convulsions of a nation? Equal parts brilliant family saga and piercing political drama, this is an extraordinary novel of revenge and redemption, ambition and undoing, loyalty and love, by one of the most lauded voices in contemporary fiction.
About the Author:
Karan Mahajan is the author of The Association of Small Bombs, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, won the Muse India Young Writer Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Crossword Book Award, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, among other honors. His debut novel, Family Planning, was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He has been selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. Originally from Delhi, he now teaches at Brown University.
About the Moderator:
Dharini Bhaskar is the author of These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light (shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature and the Literature Live! Award) and Like Being Alive Twice. She is also associate publisher, literary, at HarperCollins India. A St. Xavier’s College alumnus, she left Bombay in her twenties, only to find herself returning, year after year, to converse with the sea and with her parents. Her son was born in Bombay, as were all her dogs and cats.
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