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Title	:	Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Author	:	Kiran Desai
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	May 18th 1999 by Anchor (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Humor

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Kiran Desai

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.44 | 5038 Users | 454 Reviews

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Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to be the case. A sullen government worker, Sampath is inspired only when in search of a quiet place to take his nap. "But the world is round," his grandmother says. "Wait and see Even if it appears he is going downhill, he will come up the other side. Yes, on top of the world. He is just taking a longer route." No one believes her until, one day, Sampath climbs into a guava tree and becomes unintentionally famous as a holy man, setting off a series of events that spin increasingly out of control. A delightfully sweet comic novel that ends in a raucous bang, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is as surprising and entertaining as it is beautifully wrought.

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Original Title:	Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
ISBN:	0385493703 (ISBN13: 9780385493703)
Setting:	India
Literary Awards:	Betty Trask Award (1998)

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Kiran Desai has now written a serious book that shows off her deep thinking and writing skills - the inheritance of loss.whatever. she had me at Hullabaloo.this book is funny. Hands down funny. And the mother in the book, reminds me of my mother on her more insane days. I just realized that in a lot of the books that I love, food plays a role. sometimes a big role. in this book, the mother, kulfi, is an amazing cook who knows no boundaries as to ingredients and spices. hm...And the younger

Fairly amusing and fairly brief novel about Sampath, an Indian adolescent, who really does not want to work hard and who would rather laze around. One day he suddenly decides he would like to sit at the top of a guava tree. He stays there and refuses to come down. He begins to be mistaken for a wise man. There is an air of predictability about this and some of the characters are very formulaic. There are some very funny moments though and the saga of the drunken monkeys is hilarious. Desai also



I thought the story till now was interesting, though I'm still confused about the significanse of everything. However, I'm sure that they'll be revealed soon enough and that the story will have a mind-capturing pace and beat. I deeply appreciate the relation to nature in the story; the monsoon and the heatwave before. The authors descriptive language is really one to admire because of the use of metaphors and similies, especially the fashion in which the author depicted the rain, as peacockishly

Everyone should read this absolutely delightful and very interesting novel that pulls you right in from the first chapter. Here's a little taste:But Ammaji, who had just been handed a nice chocolate cone by the Hungry Hop boy, ran with the cone--not that this mattered, for he monkey ignored her and ran after Pinky instead, even though she was without any food products whatsoever. He grabbed hold of her dupatta and held tight as she screamed like a train and pounded down the bazaar street,

Chapter 3 +4 :The life of the Indian family is told. The father who gives commands, the children trying to keep up with his demands and the crazy mother thinking of food.All in all chapter 3 reads itself fluently and it gives a nice, but a bit strange and boring view over the life of a paysan family in the Himalaya.In the next chapter the life in the city Shahkot is told, little, but interesting and funny things happening at the end Sampath looses his work.The more I'm reading the more I come

Wow. I did not expect "Hullabaloo" to turn out like that. It was so surprising and a page turner by the end of the book, much unlike the beginning. In the middle, the book was a bit confusing with all the new chapters being introduced but you seem to understand everything by the end which was clever of Desai, how she brang everything together at the end. Sampath is an unusual character trying to find himself so he climbs a guava tree an decides to live there. His father is against this but his