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"The Complex," forthcoming in March 2026
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Advance Praise:
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“The Complex is an extraordinary gift to its lucky readers: an enormously full and brilliantly structured novel whose characters come to feel as familiar—and as bottomlessly mysterious—as one's own family. I was spellbound by the ramifying dramas of the Chopras, whose strong roots intertwine below their Delhi complex during decades of sweeping global and national change. I am awestruck by what Karan Mahajan has accomplished in The Complex and I never wanted this book to end.”
—Karen Russell, bestselling author of The Antidote
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“In the tradition of Tolstoy, Karan Mahajan has written a family saga and a historical epic that describes humanity with absolute fidelity—no kinder or crueler, wiser or duller, grander or punier than it really is. In The Complex, not only is the personal political, but the political is a duck blind for the personal, demonstrating how family secrets and failed businesses create demagogues, martyrs, and assassins. This is a far-sighted and serious novel, and a monument to radicalized times.”
—Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection
“A delicious page turner about familial jealousy and revenge that, in the Dostoevskian tradition, doubles as a masterful investigation of the slipperiness of power in a changing and modernizing world. The Complex is Mahajan's most exciting, virtuosic novel yet.”
—Vauhini Vara, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Immortal King Rao
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