Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

from zasmine

I'm a little confused about this book. Reading it in highly urban India, I really liked the description of the wild. I loved Kulfi's appetite and her wondrous palette. The civil servants were all delightful- from the new DC to the Post master to Miss Divya, the CMO, the Brigadier... And that cute...

from teckelvik

I picked this off the shelf at the library because I am actively trying to read more books by Indian authors. (Asian Indian, just to be clear.) It looked entertaining, and it was. This was a quick read, and I really enjoyed it. The author has a very distinct voice and way of writing that just mak...

from nobooksnolife

For me, reading Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard was a case of 'purchase in haste; regret slowly'. I missed seeing the "YA" notation in the editorial reviews, then I was thoroughly swept away by most of the reader reviews, so I was expecting another work on par with Arundhati Roy or Chitra Banerje...

from jennyo

Finally! A happy Indian novel! I thought it might never happen, but I thoroughly enjoyed this little book about a young Indian man who gets tired of all the noise and bustle around him and runs off to live in a guava tree. He sort of inadvertantly becomes a holy man, and there are monkeys involve...

from thejohnsmith

Sampath Chawla is odd. So is his mother, so is is father. This tale relates something of the family's rather odd life in an Indian town that seems to have more than its fair share of odd citizens. It's a very entertaining story that won't take long to read and won't leave you dissapointed. Well w...