Hullabaloo in the guava orchard
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is the story of Sampath Chawla, 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 the tea stalls and singing to himself in the public gardens, it does not seem as if Sampath is going to amount to much. "But the world is round," says his grandmother. "Wait and see!" No one believes her, until one day Sampath climbs a guava tree in search of peaceful contemplation and becomes unexpectedly famous as a holy man.Sampath's newfound fame sends the tiny town of Shahkot into turmoil. His feisty sister falls in love with the very unsuitable Hungry Hop Ice Cream Boy; a syndicate of larcenous, alcoholic monkeys terrorizes the pilgrims who cluster around Sampath's tree; his father attempts to turn the orchard into a highly profitable carnival scene; and an overzealous spy determines to get to the bottom of it all and, to his consternation, achieves this goal in a most unpleasant way.
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Grouping Title | hullabaloo in the guava orchard |
Grouping Author | desai kiran |
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display_description | A failure at school and a failure at work, a dreamer who spends his days dreaming in tea stalls and singing to himself in public gardens, 20-year-old Sampath Chawla hardly seems destined for great things. But one day, after climbing a guava tree in search of peaceful contemplation, Sampath awakes to find himself proclaimed "the Hermit of Shakhot." Embracing his new career as a holy man, Sampath unburdens himself of a wealth of hilariously prosaic and often uncanny revelations that upset the social equilibrium of his small hometown and send its outrageous inhabitants careening out of control. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | India -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Hullabaloo in the guava orchard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Hullabaloo in the guava orchard / Kiran Desai | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Hullabaloo in the guava orchard |