دانلود کتاب A Guardian and a Thief 2025

In her novel A Guardian and a Thief, author Megha Majumdar presents a gripping tale set in a near-future Kolkata ravaged by environmental collapse. Over the span of one week, the lives of two families intersect: Ma, a mother on the brink of emigrating with her daughter and father, suddenly finds the life-changing immigration documents stolen.

Simultaneously, Boomba, a young shelter resident, driven by desperation to save his family, commits an act of theft that sets off a cascade of consequences. Majumdar plunges the reader into a world of scarcity, fear and hope, asking: who can protect, who must steal, and what becomes of morality when survival is at stake.

Majumdar’s narrative cuts between Ma’s frantic search for what is lost and Boomba’s morally fraught struggle to secure what he needs. The characters are defined by fierce love, unrelenting hope and harsh choices, as both families grapple with collapsing systems, hunger and uncertainty. Through taut prose and layered characterisation, Megha Majumdar reveals that the line between guardian and thief is fragile, and that in a world unravelled by crisis, protection and predation may be two sides of the same coin¹.