num_pages: 209
description: After years of failure at school and work, and of spending his days dreaming in the tea stalls and singing to himself in the public gardens, it doesn't seem as if post-office clerk Sampath Chawla is going to amount to much. But then he climbs a guava tree and becomes unexpectedly famous as a guru.
language: English
title: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
titlecomplete: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
genres: Fiction, Cultural, Indian Literature, Asia, India, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 5869
places: India
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Faber and Faber