# Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

**Author:** Kiran Desai
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 1998
**Genre:** Literary Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780802144508`
**ISBN-10:** `0802144500`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/hullabaloo-in-the-guava-orchard
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Kiran Desai's first novel. Sampath Chawla, a bored post-office clerk in the small Indian town of Shahkot, climbs into a guava tree and refuses to come down; the town decides he is a holy man, and his family sets about making the most of it. A comic novel about family, crowds and the wish to be left alone. It won the Betty Trask Award in 1998.

## Where this book is assigned

### Cambridge IGCSE English Literature (0475)

- **required** · 9th grade — [source: Prescribed set text for Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0475), Paper 1 Section B (Prose), for examination in 2027. Transcribed from the official Cambridge International syllabus (721333-2027-syllabus.pdf). Set texts rotate per exam year — re-verify ](https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-literature-english-0475/)
- **required** · 10th grade — [source: Prescribed set text for Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0475), Paper 1 Section B (Prose), for examination in 2027. Transcribed from the official Cambridge International syllabus (721333-2027-syllabus.pdf). Set texts rotate per exam year — re-verify ](https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-literature-english-0475/)

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