The skinning tree
By: Srikumar Sen
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Ulverscroft
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781444822953
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction; History
Description: During the Second World War, nine-year-old Sabby lives in a Calcutta family where sophisticated British habits such as bridge and dinner parties co-exist with Indian values and nationalism. But when he is sent to a boarding school in northern India, that world is soon forgotten; and Sabby is 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 sinister schemes. Conspiratorial whisperings and plans of revenge spiral into a tragedy, engulfing Sabby ...
Notes: Adult.