When i began reading Kiran desai's first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, the plot summary reminded me of RK Narayan's Novels. A small railway staion for a village, the lone station master, a banyan tree for villagers to gather around..
But, this book is about sampath, a young man working for postal service having a dull, simple life. He flees his home town and climbs up a guava tree and his life makes a U-turn afterwards. The story is fresh. It is unique in all respect, and abundant with subtle humour.
Her second book The inheritance of loss touches upon a more serious topic -Influence of british in every day life of indians and obsession with all things western.
The story is set in a far-away town on the foothills of himalayas and revolves around the life of a retired judge
and his cook.
Though the book adapts a bit of a complex writing style with a discontinuous flow, it is in most parts an interesting read.
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