Faber & Faber

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Kiran Desai

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Synopsis:

The delightful story of Sampath Chawla, bored post-office clerk and dreamer, who takes to the branches of a secluded guava tree in search of the contemplative life - only to find something rather different . . .

'Hullabaloo is delicious: with kindness and humour Desai describes a magical world full of eccentric characters that, at the end of the book, one is sad to leave.' Daily Telegraph

Tags:

Categorised as:

Fiction

Sub-categories:

General Fiction

Places:

India

Genres & Themes:

Asian Interest; Eccentrics; Families; Magic Realism

Awards & Prizes:

Betty Trask Award - Winner 1998