JOY IN THE COFFEE SEASON

Category Literature & Fiction
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 295

ISBN: 978-93-6156-386-7
Pages: 192 pages
Date: 5th May 2024

ABOUT THIS BOOK

‘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.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

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’.