Aru Shah And The End Of Time

About “Aru Shah And The End Of Time”

Twelve-year-old Aru Shah often stretches the truth to fit in at school, especially when her classmates are traveling while she stays home at the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture. One day, three classmates challenge her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed. To prove it, Aru lights the lamp, unintentionally freeing the Sleeper, an ancient demon meant to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and mother are frozen in time, leaving Aru to save them. To stop the demon, she must find the reincarnations of the five Pandava brothers from the Mahabharata and journey through the Kingdom of Death. Despite her fears, Aru must rise to the challenge. This 2018 novel by Roshani Chokshi follows her adventure.