![]() ![]() ![]() A delightfully sweet comic novel that ends in a raucous bang, “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” is as surprising and entertaining as it is beautifully wrought.ĭesai is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. No one believes her until, one day, Sampath climbs into a guava tree and becomes unintentionally famous as a holy man, setting off a series of events that spin increasingly out of control. “Wait and see Even if it appears he is going downhill, he will come up the other side. “But the world is round,” his grandmother says. A sullen government worker, Sampath is inspired only when in search of a quiet place to take his nap. Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to be the case. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath’s proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. The novel tells the story of Sampath Chawla, who was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. Saless is the publisher of the book rendered into Persian by Forugh Puryavari. ![]() TEHRAN – Indian writer Kiran Desai’s 1998 novel “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” has been published in Persian in Tehran. ![]()
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