Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard  (English, Paperback, Desai Kiran)

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  • Language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Genre: Fiction
  • ISBN: 9780802144508, 9780802144508
  • Pages: 224
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Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai is one of the most talented writers of her generation. Now available for the first time as a Grove Press paperback, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard--Desai's dazzling debut novel--is a wryly hilarious and poignant story that simultaneously captures the vivid culture of the Indian subcontinent and the universal intricacies of human experience. Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought into a family not quite like other families, in a town not quite like other towns. After years of failure at school, failure at work, of spending his days dreaming in tea stalls, it does not seem as if Sampath is going to amount to much--until one day he climbs a guava tree in search of peaceful contemplation and becomes unexpectedly famous as a holy man, sending his tiny town into turmoil. A syndicate of larcenous, alcoholic monkeys terrorize the pilgrims who cluster around Sampath's tree, spies and profiteers descend on the town, and none of Desai's outrageous characters goes unaffected as events spin increasingly out of control.
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  • Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Terrific

this is the good book
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Brilliant

good product on time delivery
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Could be way better

what a disappointment...half the book is about a wall...most boring.
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Brilliant

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Worth the money

Good
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Just wow!

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Light Summer Reading

I read Kiran Desai’s 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard' after reading 'The Inheritance of Loss', moving down the author’s evolutionary ladder, so to speak. The exercise proved instructive. 'Hullabaloo', Desai’s debut novel, is full of intimations of a greater work to come. It has the tropes and stylistic elements that define 'Inheritance' (comedic satire, animated dialogue, endearingly eccentric characters), though, understandably, it lacks the literary heft and thematic depth of the later wo...
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PIERRE FRANCIS

Oct, 2014

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A satire

Based on a true story.

A good for nothing man suddenly becomes an all knowing BABA.

Stays in a guava orchard and preaches wisdom.

But how long can this go on?

A very good debut novel by author.
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Mandar

Aug, 2014

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Ok-ok.

The narration is good. The characters have been well-written. The story simple, yet entertaining is okay, but has been stretched about a lot. There were some good moments in the book, but it got boring at times. The end, unfortunately was disappointing. I thought the protagonist, Sampath, was really funny at the start, but got dull later. All in all, it's a one time read.
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Adithi Rao

Aug, 2012

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