“But the world is round,” says his grandmother. After years of failure at school, failure at work, of spending his days dreaming in tea stalls, and singing to himself in the public gardens, it does not seem as if Sampath is going to amount to much. 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.
Now available for the first time as a Grove Press paperback, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard-Desai’s dazzling, much-heralded debut novel-is a wryly hilarious and poignant story of life, love, and family that simultaneously captures the vivid culture of the Indian subcontinent and the universal intricacies of human experience. 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.
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