The Skinning Tree: Winner of 2012 South Asia Prize - Softcover

Sen, Srikumar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846882966 ISBN 13: 9781846882968

Verlag: Alma Books Ltd, 2015

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Set against the Japanese advance on India during the Second World War, 'The Skinning Tree' centres on the nine-year-old Sabby, who lives in a Calcutta family where sophisticated British habits such as bridge and dinner parties co-exist with Indian values and nationalism. When he is sent to a boarding school in northern India, that world is soon forgotten as he's subjected with his fellow pupils to the teachers' draconian regime. The boys themselves take on their educators' cruel traits, mindlessly killing animals and hanging their skins on a cactus, before their thoughts turn to even more sisnister schemes. Conspirational whisperings and plans of revenge spiral into a tragedy engulfing Sabby, in an engrossing novel exploring human nature's darkest facets.

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Born in Calcutta and following a degree at Oxford, Srikumar Sen started his career as a journalist at The Statesman in India. He later moved to England where he worked at The Guardian before moving to The Times, at which he worked as their boxing correspondent for thirty years. The Skinning Tree is his first novel.

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• Verlag: Alma Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1846882966
• ISBN 13: 9781846882968
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
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