Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971, was educated in India, England and the United States, and now lives in New York. She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two...

Sampath Chawla is born into a family slightly off kilter, to a mother not quite like her neighbors, in a town not quite like other towns. After years of failure at school, failure at work, it does not seem as if Sampath is going to...

"Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" von Kiran Desai ist ein humorvoller Roman, der in der fiktiven Stadt Shahkot in Indien spielt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um Sampath Chawla, einen jungen Mann, der mit seinem monotonen Leben und seinem...