JOY IN THE COFFEE SEASON

Literature & Fiction

JOY IN THE COFFEE SEASON

By: Tilak Ponappa

295.00

  • ISBN: 978-93-6156-386-7
  • Pages: 192 pages
  • Published: February 2025
  • Format: Paperback
  • Imprint: Rupa
  • Language: English

‘I thought you were doing particularly well this year. We seem to have a good crop and you were

working so hard. What has gotten into you?’ said his wife.

Joyappa almost answered that it was beer, popcorn and lots of delicious meat that had ‘gotten

into’ him. In the nick of time, he realized the question was rhetorical. So, he maintained a stoic

silence.

Joyappa, well-known to everyone as Joy, is a coffee planter and family man from Coorg (Kodagu) in

Karnataka, who valiantly tries to stay in his wife Susheela’s good books. Susheela seems to have the

uncanny ability to know when he is up to mischief but has a difficult time dealing with his immature

behaviour. Although Joy works very hard to harvest his crops during the crucial period known as

‘The Season’ and starts the season with the best of intentions, his irrational schemes, quirky friends

and unconventional methods lead to many embarrassing and comical situations.

Joy and his ‘supporting cast’ are back in this hilarious sequel to Joy in Coorg. Follow Joy’s journey as

he wreaks havoc at his son’s posh boarding school, tolerates his wife’s preachy relatives and snobbish

friends, makes history in the field of medicine, alienates some people and befriends others, and

generally has a grand time as he good-naturedly muddles through life.

Tilak Ponappa was born in the Nilgiri Hills and spent his formative years at The Lawrence School,

Lovedale, which is also located in the same spectacular mountainous region of southern India. He

lived in America for several years, where he conducted research on the biochemistry, tissue culture

and genetic engineering of plants, and has a PhD from The Ohio State University. He eventually

moved back to India where he lives with his wife on a coffee estate in Coorg (Kodagu), Karnataka,

tending to his plants and assorted canine and feline friends. He comes from a long line of coffee

and tea planters and writes about life in this region in a humorous way.

Tilak Ponappa’s earlier novel ‘Joy in Coorg’ chronicled the often hilarious adventures of Joyappa, a

coffee planter. ‘Joy in the Coffee Season & Other Stories’ picks up the threads of Joyappa’s life and

describes his comical escapades in the picturesque hills of the Nilgiris and Coorg. Tilak Ponappa

is also the author of ‘The Cougar’.

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