3.5
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
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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.
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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“It is after a long time that I picked up a book by an Indian author and I love that it was this book. I went into it blind. I had no idea about the story or the themes. But I really enjoyed reading it. The book was filled with so many funny moments. I enjoyed it a lot.
I had always imagined Kiran Desai's book to be sophisticated and hard to read, not because of anything negative about her but because English is my second language and I feel nervous about picking up classics and the books which are highly acclaimed because then I think that the language used in those would be so complicated, I would not be able to grasp. But it was not the case with this one. I loved the writing. I love how the story was structured. It was a delight to read. I can empathize with Sampath because sometimes I too want to leave everything behind and just disappear in the mountains and be free from this restrictive society we've have created for ourselves. As humans, we were supposed to run free in the woods, eat from the trees and just be. Humans literally saw all the beauty of this world and just decided to work the whole day. Disappointing. But I am glad,in the end, Sampath managed to escape. Or did he turn into a guava? Guess we'll never know! But either way, he is finally free.
PS : My favourite one is Kulfi, Sampath's mother. She made me crack up. The way she doesn't care about or anything other than cooking. That's the exact amount of obsessed I want to be with my hobbies and passions. 🤭”
About Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and educated in India, England, and the United States. She studied creative writing at Columbia University, where she was the recipient of a Woolrich fellowship. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and Salman Rushdie's anthology Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing. In 2006 Desai won the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
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