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 doesnt 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. Paperback , 209 pages Published 1999 by Faber and Faber (first published 1998)