Review: ‘A Burning’ followup ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ is a ‘classic’

Claude Peck, The Minnesota Star Tribune

At just a hair more than 200 pages, “A Guardian and a Thief” manages superbly (and efficiently) to be many things: A beguilingly simple tale. A complicated morality play. A sensitive evocation of a time — the near future — and a place — Kolkata, India — during a period of flooding, drastic food shortages and heat like “a hand clamped upon the mouth.”