The Trees Know All The Stories - Softcover

Saharia R

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798904319878

Publisher: Notion Press, 2026

Synopsis

Five thousand, two hundred years ago, a seed fell into the earth in what would one day be called Madhya Pradesh.

The tree that grew from it has been watching India ever since. Empires, prophets, battles, and the slow making of everything this country is today.

5,200 years. And in all that time, the tree has never spoken.

Until this summer.

Arjun Sharma is eight years old and deeply unimpressed. His parents have sent him to his grandmother's village in Madhya Pradesh for the holidays - no Wi-Fi, no friends, no reason to be there. The ancient Peepal tree at the edge of the village is just a tree. Obviously.

It isn't.

Dada, as Arjun comes to call it, has chosen him - not the grandmother who has left offerings at its roots for forty years, but this impatient city boy who came expecting boredom.

The tree remembers everything. Every empire that believed it would last forever. Every idea that outlived the people who had it. And somewhere across those long summer conversations, Arjun begins to understand his grandmother. And his country. And himself.

"The main trunk rose out of the ground with the unhurried confidence of something that had never, in its life, considered the possibility of not being there."

The Trees Know All the Stories is the first book in The Earth Remembers series - seven books, seven ancient narrators, one boy growing up across the length of India.

For readers of Ruskin Bond, Paulo Coelho, and Richard Powers.

About this title

About the Author

Saharia R writes at the intersection of nature, history, and the stories 
that India has carried for thousands of years.
 
The Trees Know All the Stories is the first book in 
The Earth Remembers— a seven-book literary series in which a boy 
named Arjun Sharma grows up across India, encountering ancient narrators: 
a Peepal tree, a river, a mountain, a desert, an ocean. Each book is a 
story. Each story is also a world — of history, of science, of what it 
means to belong to a place as old as this one.
 
Saharia R believes the best history was never in textbooks. It was in the 
trees that watched it happen.
 
The second book in the series, The River Never Forgets, is 
forthcoming in 2027.

From the Back Cover

Eight-year-old Arjun Sharma did not want to spend the summer in a village.
He wanted to go home to Mumbai.

But his Nani had other plans. And so did the tree.

The Peepal at the edge of Banspur is five thousand years old. It has
watched empires rise and crumble from this single spot. It has seen India —
the ancient, the medieval, the colonial, the free — pass through its shade
like seasons. And now it has chosen a boy who is half-listening, homesick,
and entirely unprepared for what it is about to tell him.

Part story, part history, part love letter to the India that existed long
before any of us — The Trees Know All the Stories is the first book
in The Earth Remembers, a seven-book series following Arjun as he
grows up in conversation with the ancient natural world.

Some trees have been here long enough to remember everything.

This one is finally ready to talk.

From the Inside Flap

Arjun Sharma is eight years old, and he would rather be back in Mumbai.
Instead he finds himself in Banspur — a small village in Madhya Pradesh —
spending the summer with his Nani. There is no Wi-Fi. There is no noise.
There is only the heat, the dust, and an enormous Peepal tree at the edge
of the village that his Nani insists is special.

She is not wrong.

The tree is five thousand years old. It has a name — Dada — and it has
been watching. For five millennia, from this one rooted spot, it has
witnessed everything: the rise of the Maurya empire and its fall, the
arrival of traders and conquerors, the slow burn of a freedom struggle,
the birth of a modern nation. It has seen kings and beggars, saints and
soldiers, ordinary people living ordinary lives that history forgot to
record.

Now, for reasons it does not entirely explain, it has decided to tell
Arjun everything.

What follows is unlike any history Arjun has encountered in school — dry,
distant, full of dates that meant nothing. This history is alive. It smells
of soil and monsoon rain. It has voices and faces. It is told by something
that was there.

The Trees Know All the Stories is a novel about memory — what
civilisations remember, what families pass down, and what gets lost when
we stop listening to the oldest things around us. It is a book for children
who love stories and adults who forgot they did.

It is the first of seven.
Arjun has only just begun to listen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Notion Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798904319878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314