Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur?
One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Just a quick light, Aru thinks. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again.
But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them.
The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the five legendary Pandava brothers, protagonists of the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, and journey through the Kingdom of Death. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that?

Chokshi, Roshani, author

Mary Glasgow Magazines

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

The Pandava series, London, 2018

A Pandava novel, London, 2018

Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. Whilst her classmates are jetting off to exotic locales, she'll be at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture where her mother works. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? When Aru's schoolmates dare her to prove that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, she doesn't think there's any harm in lighting it. Little does Aru know that lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and, accompanied by a wise-cracking pigeon and her long-lost half-sister, it's up to Aru to save them

Tolv år gamle Aru Shah har en tendens til å pynte på sannheten for å passe inn på skolen. Mens klassekameratene drar på eksotiske ferier, er Aru hjemme på Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, der moren hennes jobber. Det er vel ikke så rart at Aru finner på historier om at hun er kongelig, at hun drar på ferie til Paris og har sin egen privatsjåfør? Når Arus klassekamerater utfordrer henne til å bevise at det hviler en forbannelse over museets Bharata-lampe, tenner hun på lyset i lampen. Men uten å vite om det, vekker hun til live en eldgammel demon samt en illsint gud, noe som får store konsekvenser. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS

355 pages ; 20 cm
Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon

2023-10-09