Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: An Existential Reading

Abstract

Abstract

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is the debut novel of, the Man Booker Prize winning writerKiran Desai. Desai launched herself on the literary landscape with her excerpt Strange Happenings in the Guava Orchard published in the New Yorker and in Mirrorwork, an anthology of 50 years of Indian writing edited by Salman Rushdie. In 1998, she extended her work into the comic fable Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. It won instant admiration and went on to win the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels from citizens of the Commonwealth Nations under the age of thirty-five.