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GUARDIAN AND THEIF (Record no. 197099)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780143477730
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Terms of availability Purchased
Note Prism Books, Kadavanthra
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number F
Item number MEG/GU
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Personal name Megha Majumdar
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title GUARDIAN AND THEIF
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Haryana
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Hamish Hamilton - Penguin Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2025
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Size of unit 205
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note 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.<br/><br/>In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father 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, containing their treasured immigration documents, has been stolen.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>A masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Novel
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Koha item type Lending
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Fiction Ernakulam Public Library Ernakulam Public Library Fiction 2025-11-24 Purchased 699.00 KC-25-CRB-4683,2025/11/24 6 6 F MEG/GU E1102303 2026-10-05 2026-09-06 2026-09-06 2025-11-24 Lending