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Award finalist will make you sweat
The Star
|October 27, 2025
MEGHA Majumdar's A Guardian and a Thief is such an anxious book that even when you finally put it down, you'll hear it sitting there on the shelf, panting.
A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF
Megha Majumdar Loot.co.za (R598) KNOPF
A finalist for this year's National Book Award in fiction, it's a perfect short novel: 200 pages of tightly honed panic about life in a collapsing society.
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