Once again displaying Peter Carey's flair for language, 'theft' is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to manhattan via tokyo, it explores themes of art, fraud, responsibility ...Once again displaying Peter Carey's flair for language, 'theft' is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to manhattan via tokyo, it explores themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.