After years of failure at school and work, and of spending his days dreaming in the tea stalls and singing to himself in the public gardens, it doesn't seem as if post-office clerk Sampath Chawla is going to amount to much.
But then he climbs a guava tree and becomes unexpectedly famous as a guru.
Faber And Faber Hullabaloo in the guava orchard | kiran desai
