

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Powell's Presents: Karan Mahajan in Conversation With Omar El Akkad
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Complex (Viking) is a brilliant, sweeping tour de force moving between the U.S. and modern India, following the illicit liaisons, real estate dramas, political ambitions, and mortal betrayals of one prominent Delhi family — from Karan Mahajan, author of the National Book Award finalist The Association of Small Bombs.

In a sprawling complex in Delhi, the sons and daughters of SP Chopra, one of India’s political architects, live together, vying for influence in a family shaped by the great man’s legacy. By the late 1970s, his descendants are scrambling to define their own futures in a still-young nation on the brink of transformation.

Sachin Chopra leaves for America, with his bride, Gita, following not long after, as the newlyweds are eager to forge their own lives beyond the pressures of the family compound. 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 through the ranks of a rising Hindu nationalist movement, caught between his political aspirations and his personal transgressions. Meanwhile, Vibha, his sister, tries to keep the peace and the reputation of the family intact, even as she wrestles with her own exile.

As India erupts in violence and long-buried secrets come to light, the embattled Chopras must reckon with the cost of power, the weight of tradition, and the shifting nature of love and allegiance. Equal parts brilliant family saga and piercing political drama, The Complex is a virtuosic novel of revenge and redemption, ambition and undoing, loyalty and love, by one of the most lauded voices in contemporary fiction.

Mahajan will be joined in conversation by Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

Buy the book: https://www.powells.com/events/karan-mahajan-9780593832905
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books)
- **lat**: 45.52319
- **long**: -122.68142
- **full address**: Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books), 1005 W Burnside ST,Portland, Oregon, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books), 1005 W Burnside ST,Portland, Oregon, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Powell's Books, Inc.
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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