The delightful story of Sampath Chawla, bored post-office clerk and dreamer, who takes to the branches of a secluded guava tree in search of the contemplative life - only to find something rather different.'Hullabaloo is delicious: with kindness and humour Desai describes a magical world full of eccentric characters that, at the end of the book, one is sad to leave.' Daily Telegraph
- ISBN13 9780571195718
- Publish Date 3 May 1999 (first published 4 May 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English