Karan Mahajan is the author of The Association of Small Bombs, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. 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 venues. He is an associate professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.
Praise for The Complex:
"Magisterial...[Mahajan's] work has always woven a subversive, contemporary sensibility into a traditional, almost 19th-century approach to form and style...Mahajan is a confident, ambitious and increasingly important writer..." –The New York Times Book Review
"An anguished, intelligent study of ambition decoupled from principles, and of the complacency and fear that allows it to thrive." –The Wall Street Journal
"...a testament to Mahajan's genius. This novel is beautiful and unforgettable. A masterly novel, seemingly influenced by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, by a talented and self-assured writer." –Kirkus Reviews
