Audiobook Review - A Guardian and The Thief

Title: A Guardian and a Thief

Author: Megha Majumdar

Publisher: Knopf

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Genre: Literary Fiction

It’s finally Friday and I have the perfect book for your weekend reading. A Guardian and a Thief may only be 224 pages and told only over the course of a week, but boy does it pack a punch!

{Thank you @prhaudio for the #gifted audiobook A Guardian and Thief by Mega Majumdar—October #oprahsbookclub pick! Its a full cast audiobook narrated by Leela Tapryal, Sid Sagar, Rajib Bhattacharya, Soneela Nankani, Reena Dutt, Shawn K. Jain, Mayor Bhandari. What a production!}

Dystopian books aren’t usually ones that are on my radar. However, when a dystopian story feels grounded in reality with themes of climate change, food scarcity and immigration my interest is piqued. If you liked The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton, I think you’ll like this one too.

Set in near-future Kolkata, both tense and electrifying, a women, her daughter and elderly father are finally preparing to leave for Michigan after securing their long awaited visas. Only their dream of escaping a crumbling city becomes a nightmare when their visas and immigration papers are stolen overnight while they sleep. This story truly showcases the hypothetical moral dilemma often proposed—Would you steal a loaf of bread for your starving family?

Told over a one week time period from both the family and thief’s POV, I dare you to not feel the heartbreak, survival, love and tugging of moral compasses.

This is a perfect book club pick to not only discuss the events of this book, but the ending too.