Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

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. It is set in the Indian village of Shahkot 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...
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Author:Kiran Desai
Genre:Novel, Fiction
Year published:1998
Number of editions:4

Author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai is an Indian author. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. Desai is the daughter of the Anita Desai, herself short-listed for the...
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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    "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" is in what literary genre?
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    The book is classified as- Novel.
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    What year was the book "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" first printed?
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    The work debuted in May, 1998.

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