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.
. - Alder: 9-13 år
"Has everything I like: humour, action, great characters and awesome mythology!" Rick Riordan, bestselling author of Percy Jackson "A new star is born." Eoin Colfer, bestselling author of Artemis Fowl 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.
