Series: Pandava Quartet Book 1
Genre: Middle Grade Fiction
Length: 384 pages
Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 24 minutes
First Published: 2018
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Publisher’s Description
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?
Quotes from Aru Shah and the End of Time
It is not failure to fail.
It was one of the things that she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil.
Tales are slippery, her mother had often said. The truth of a story depends on who is telling it.
Love looked different to everyone.
About Roshani Chokshi
Roshani Chokshi is the bestselling author of Aru Shah and the End of Time, The Star-Touched Queen, A Crown of Wishes, and The Gilded Wolves. She currently lives in Georgia. Visit the author’s website →
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