How long does it take to read Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard?
Kiran Desai, Diwano Scp, Armand Carabén van der Meer
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, Diwano Scp, Armand Carabén van der Meer takes about 4 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 220 pages, about 60,500 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sampath Chawla is born into a family slightly off kilter, to a mother not quite like her neighbours, in a town not quite like other towns. After years of failure, it does not seem as if Sampath is going to amount to much. Then Sampath climbs up a guava tree in search of a life of peaceful contemplation - and becomes unexpectedly famous as a hermit. News of the guru in the tree soon spreads. Sampath's family begins to make more money than they'd ever dreamed of. Written rich with humour and an eye for the eccentric, this is a magical tale of a world gone slightly mad.
Subjects: Fiction, India, Sadhus, India, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, humorous, general
