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The Skinning Tree by Srikumar Sen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Skinning Tree about?

Winner of 2012 South Asia Prize. 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, he witnesses a strict regime in which the schoolboys are beaten and brutalized by the teachers. The boys themselves take on their abusers' 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, in a chilling novel exploring human nature's darkest facets.

Who reads The Skinning Tree?

Author

Srikumar Sen

Publisher

Alma Books Ltd

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846882968

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.61 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14