Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

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The sayings on page 175 are taken from Bhargava’s Standard Illustrated Dictionary of the Hindi Language, compiled by R. C. Pathak, BA, LT 5^th ed., Bhargava Book Depot, Chowk, Varanasi, 1989

First Published in Great Britain in 1998 by Faber and Faber Ltd

Published simultaneously in Canada
Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Desai, Kiran, 1971–
Hullabaloo in the guava orchard / Kiran Desai.
p. cm.
eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4450-8
I. Title.
PS3554.E82H85 1998
813′.54—dc211 97-51148

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