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rejection and yet awe of the English way of life, opportunities to gain money in America, and the squalor of living in India. Through critical portrayal of Sai's grandfather, the retired judge, Desai comments upon leading Indians who were considered too anglicised and forgetful of traditional ways of Indian life.
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residing in the United States, trying to make a new life for himself, and contrasts this with the experiences of Sai, an anglicised Indian girl living with her grandfather in India. The novel shows both internal conflicts within India and tensions between the past and present. Desai writes of
308:: the loss of identity and the way it travels through generations as a sense of loss. Some characters snub those who embody the Indian way of life, others are angered by anglicised Indians who have lost their traditions; none is content. 357:(4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews, with the critical summary stating, "Maybe it's in her genes: the daughter of Indian novelist Anita Desai, Kiran Desai skips past the sophomore doldrums with this assured second novel." 579: 570: 765: 1813: 481: 377:
claimed Desai "manages to explore, with intimacy and insight, just about every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism,
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orphan himself.Author Desai alternates the narration between these two points of view. The action of the novel takes place in 1986.
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The retired judge Jemubhai Patel is a man disgusted by Indian ways and customs—so much so, that he eats
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illegally, son of a cook who works for Sai's grandfather. Sai is an orphan living in mountainous
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with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel, the cook, and a dog named Mutt. Her mother was a
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Among its main themes are migration, living between two worlds, and between past and present.
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found it a "grim" novel, highlighting "how individuals are always failing to communicate".
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It was written over a period of seven years after her first book, the critically acclaimed
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The story centres around the lives of Biju and Sai. Biju is an Indian living in the
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Review by NY Times, includes MP3 of author reading from the book
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found some excellent comic set-pieces amid the grimness.
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movement is used as the historic backdrop of the novel.
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Index


Kiran Desai
Novel
Kalimpong
United States
Atlantic Monthly Press
Hamish Hamilton
India
hardback
paperback
ISBN
0-241-14348-9
OCLC
65764578
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
novel
Indian
Kiran Desai
2006
Booker Prize
National Book Critics Circle
Vodafone Crossword Book Award
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
United States
Kalimpong
Gujarati
Zoroastrian
illegal alien

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