Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

First edition
Author	Kiran Desai
Country	India
Language	English
Publisher	Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication date	1998
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	209
ISBN	0-87113-711-9
OCLC	39486434
Followed by	The Inheritance of Loss

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a novel by Kiran Desai published in 1998. It is her first book and won the top prize for the Betty Trask Awards in 1998.^[1] It is set in the Indian village of Shahkot (state of Punjab) and follows the exploits of a young man, Sampath Chawla, trying to avoid the responsibilities of adult life. Fed up with his life in Shahkot, Sampath goes to a guava orchard and settles himself in a guava tree, where he uses the gossip he learned while working at the post office to convince people he is clairvoyant and soon becomes a popular "holy man".

Kiran Desai based this book on a real-life story in which a man, Kapila Pradhan,^[2] lived up a tree for 15 years. This was the author's inspiration for the book and there are similarities between the novel and Pradhan's life in his tree.

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• Review by NY Times

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