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Informationen zum Autor Srikumar Sen Klappentext 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. 'The Skinning Tree' s account of Calcutta in the early forties is one of the most acute and estranging I've read of that city in a while.' Amit Chaudhuri 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, he witnesses a strict regime in which the schoolboys are beaten and brutalized by the teachers.
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This novel is beautifully told and reminds us of those times in childhood when we began to question our actions; experiencing those differences between right and wrong that turn us into adults. Yorkshire Gazette
