![]() ![]() 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. 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. "Wait and see Even if it appears he is going downhill, he will come up the other side. "But the world is round," his grandmother says. The novel chronicles the robust, yet spiritual relationship between man and. A sullen government worker, Sampath is inspired only when in search of a quiet place to take his nap. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is Kiran Desais first book, published in 1998. ![]() Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to be the case. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. ![]()
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