Like a Karan Johar film, Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ is destined for popularity
A critical review of Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief, examining its climate-change dystopia, cinematic prose, moral ambition and Oprah-backed popularity—brilliantly crafted yet arguably too clever by half.
Megha Majumdar’s second novel is brilliant and clever. After all, Oprah says so. But as Dadu, the loving father, grandfather and Calcutta man to his soul in A Guardian and a Thief, may have thought when he was younger, wittier and just a little wicke... [2850 chars]
