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A Guardian and a Thief: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 de Megha Majumdar

A Guardian and a Thief: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026

Autor Megha Majumdar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2025

Provenind din limba engleză, A Guardian and a Thief ne este livrată într-o proză exuberantă care reușește să păstreze intacte anxietățile specifice ale societății indiene, fără a le dilua pentru publicul global. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Megha Majumdar transformă o criză birocratică — pierderea unei genți cu vize pentru Michigan — într-o parabolă despre supraviețuire într-o Kolkata a viitorului apropiat, înecată de inundații și foamete. Structura narativă este dublă: urmărim efortul frenetic al unei mame de a-și recupera viitorul și, în oglindă, povestea lui Boomba, hoțul a cărui disperare declanșează un lanț de evenimente tragice. Imaginați-vă tensiunea socială și realismul crud din Behind the Beautiful Forevers, mutată într-un decor de anticipare climatică, unde resursele de bază devin monedă de schimb pentru moralitate. Apreciem cum autoarea evită clișeele despre sărăcie, oferind în schimb o perspectivă tăioasă asupra egoismului parental și a barierelor invizibile dintre clase. Față de debutul său A Burning, care analiza corupția și obsesia pentru celebritate în India contemporană, acest nou roman pare mai intim, dar mult mai sumbru, ancorând mizele politice în dragostea feroce pentru proprii copii. Ritmul este cel al unei farse negre, unde fiecare decizie luată din iubire pare să accelereze dezastrul iminent. Este o lectură care nu oferă confort, ci o oglindă deformată a prezentului nostru, scrisă cu o stăpânire narativă care confirmă vocea distinctă a lui Megha Majumdar în literatura actuală. Tonul este unul de urgență, dar paginile lasă loc și pentru momente de o tandrețe neașteptată, făcând din acest roman o experiență de lectură profund viscerală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781398551657
ISBN-10: 1398551651
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Export/Airside
Editura: SCRIBNER UK
Colecția Scribner UK

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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută proză contemporană cu mize etice puternice. A Guardian and a Thief nu este doar un roman despre schimbări climatice, ci o analiză psihologică despre cât de departe merge un părinte pentru a asigura viitorul copilului său. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra Indiei de mâine, printr-o poveste care îmbină suspansul unui roman polițist cu profunzimea literaturii de înaltă clasă.

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Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times Bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other—a piercing and propulsive tour de force.
 
In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, Ma, her two-year-old daughter Mishti, and her elderly father Dadu are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse, with all the treasured immigration documents within it, has been stolen.

Set over the course of one week, A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma’s frantic search for the thief while keeping hunger at bay during a worsening food shortage; and the story of Boomba, the thief, whose desperation to care for his family drives him to commit a series of escalating crimes whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families, each operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope, each discovering how far they will go to secure their children’s future as they stave off encroaching catastrophe.

A masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
 

Notă biografică

Megha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning, which was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal. It was named one of the best books of the year by media including the Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, Atlantic, Vogue, and TIME Magazine. A 2022 Whiting Award winner, she was born and raised in Kolkata, India, and holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She is the former editor in chief of Catapult books, and lives in New York.

Recenzii

‘An indictment of this moment and a timeless parable about the lengths we go to for love and self-preservation, written in exuberant prose - this is a novel that will burrow its way into your soul and remain there forever.’ Tahmima Anam

‘Nothing goes to plan in this ­propulsive black farce which ­combines ­vertiginous plot twists and a persuasive doomy atmosphere with a terrific spin on the moral hypocrisy of the Indian middle classes.’ Daily Mail

'A piercing and empathetic examination of the moral complexities of survival and how love can blur the lines between right and wrong in the face of disaster' TIME

‘A true literary achievement… Majumdar creates a tense and deeply compassionate portrait of desperation, fear and the combined selflessness and selfishness of parenthood… Detail is the strongest thing in A Guardian and a Thief. It conveys the nuances of not only love but also wisdom… a true joy to read.’ New York Times

'A mesmerizing morality play that demonstrates how categories like ‘victim’ and ‘thief’ collapse under conditions of scarcity.' Atlantic

'An unputdownable, searing morality tale' Boston Globe

'[A Guardian and a Thief] is a perfect novel: 200 pages of tightly honed panic about life in a collapsing society. . . . The book’s simple structure feels reminiscent of a fairy tale, which helps account for the deep, visceral terror the story generates.' The Washington Post

'Adroitly plotted. . . . Majumdar’s unstintingly graceful political novel has the grip of a nail-biter.' The New Yorker

'A Guardian and a Thief is an achievement. It deserves praise. It deserves study. It deserves to be read, and sat with, and thought about. . . . The craft of this novel is something approaching immaculate.' Pittsburgh Post Gazette

'Tightly plotted and emotionally vivid.' New York Magazine

'A beguilingly simple tale. A complicated morality play. A sensitive evocation of time. . . . [A Guardian and a Thief] is a contemporary classic.' Minnesota Star Tribune

'Prescient. . . . Tightly plotted. . . . Majumdar’s novel makes chillingly real the law of the world.' Foreign Policy

'[A Guardian and a Thief] is a tense, emotional thriller written with a poet’s knack for finding the right images to set your brain on fire.' Esquire

'Wondering if there’s a novel out there that gives Cormac McCarthy’s The Road a run for its money? Here you go. [A Guardian and a Thief is] an indelible piece of writing, in equal parts dazzling and devastating.' Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life

'Devastatingly powerful. . . . With this incredible story, Majumdar has given us something precious: truth.' BookPage (starred review)

'An electrifying depiction of dignity and morality under siege. . . . With gorgeous writing and the pacing of a thriller, A Guardian and a Thief transports the reader to a world ravaged by drought, burning heat, and severe food scarcity. . . . The way Majumdar manages to connect all the storylines with a resolution that unfolds both globally and in one small living room is genius.' Kirkus (starred review)

'Luminous. . . . Majumdar conjures a city at once deteriorating and resilient, where markets sell seaweed and synthetic fish, and the city’s 'remaining benevolent billionaire' lives on a heavily guarded man-made island in a widening river. . . . There’s no clear-cut villain here, just people attempting to survive and protect their own. Majumdar proves once again that she is a master of the moral dilemma.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'Majumdar brilliantly blurs right and wrong, ethics and legality. . . . [An] exquisitely wrenching novel.' Booklist (starred review)