A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF Discussion Questions

Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.

“A true literary achievement… Majumdar creates a tense and deeply compassionate portrait of desperation, fear and the combined selflessness and selfishness of parenthood… this novel, wrenching though it often is, a true joy to read.” ­—The New York Times Book Review

“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

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

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