![]() ![]() Introspective fellow torn between his familial obligations and his own desire to be left alone. Desai has conjured up a small Indian town, poised midway between tradition and modernity, and focused on the life of one of that town's anonymous inhabitants - a dreamy, Narayan has done in his well-known Malgudi stories, Ms. Pitch-perfect ear for character and mood, and her natural storytelling gifts.Īs Mr. ![]() Rather, the novel stands as a meticulously crafted piece of gently comic satire - a small, finely tuned fable that attests to the author's Grand, mythic visions at work in "Hullabaloo," no ambitious displays of magical realism. Roy or Salman Rushdie than with an older generation of Indian writers, including her mother, Anita Desai, and R.K. "God of Small Things," 27-year old Kiran Desai turns out to have less in common with Ms. Lthough the publishers of "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" have been comparing the book to Arundhati Roy's award-winning novel JBOOKS OF THE TIMES / By MICHIKO KAKUTANI 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard': Celebrity Frenzy in a Sleepy Village ![]() 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard': Celebrity Frenzy in a Sleepy Village ![]()
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