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| name = Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard | | name = Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/daily/hullbaloo-book-review.html Review by NY Times] | * [https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/daily/hullbaloo-book-review.html Review by NY Times] | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:02, 8 March 2026
 First edition | |
| Author | Kiran Desai |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
| 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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- ↑ Jena, Sanjaya (January 25, 2006). "Man lives in tree after domestic spat". BBC. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
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