Hullabaloo in the guava orchard

By Kiran Desai

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

The inheritance of loss

By Kiran Desai

In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, in a crumbling isolated house, there lives a cantankerous old judge, who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the...

De erfenis van het verlies

By Kiran Desai

Als een Indiaas meisje verliefd wordt op een Nepalese jongen, krijgen beiden te maken met identiteitsproblemen.

Hullabaloo in the Guava orchard

By Kiran Desai

Fired from his job, the good-for-nothing Indian postal clerk, Sampath Chawla, 20, climbs a guava tree in search of contemplation and becomes a famous holy man. All of which proves his grandmother's...

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Complete & Unabridged

By Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

By Kiran Desai

Symmetric Textile Patterns

By Kiran Desai

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

By Kiran Desai

Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their so...

The Inheritance of Loss

By Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgen...

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

By Kiran Desai

The spellbinding story of two young people whose fates will intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity by the Boo...