The essay argues that The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan is ultimately a realist novel in which the central protagonist is a bomb. Adapting and adopting Lukács's theories of realism and totality, the essay provides a close and deep reading of the form of the novel. It shows how the novel eschews the characteristic features of the post-9/11 anglophone global novel by turning away from the epochal event and the US to portray the landscape of northern India, the lives of peripatetic "terrorists" fighting for an independent Kashmir, and the unraveling of the lives of those caught in the aftermath of a small bomb explosion in Delhi in 1996.

文章认为，Karan Mahajan撰写的《小炸弹协会》最终是一部现实主义小说，其中中央主角是炸弹。这篇论文改编并采用了卢卡奇的现实主义和整体性理论，对小说的形式进行了深入而深刻的解读。它通过远离时代性事件和美国来描绘印度北部的风景，四面八方的“恐怖分子”为独立的克什米尔而战的生活，展示了该小说如何避免了9/11后英语全球小说的特征。以及1996年在德里发生的一枚小炸弹爆炸后被捕者的生活遭到破坏。