The Last Hangman - Softcover
A powerful, harrowing book exploring a great moral question: when does one who kills become a murderer?
In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final struggles of the criminals he hung by the neck to die. Remarkable and haunting, delicated and assured, this novel is a meditation on death and what it means to end a life.
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Shashi Warrier is the author of three thrillers, Night of the Krait, The Orphan, and Sniper.
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"A work of intense passion unsapped by sentimentality, that inexorably forces change on the narrator, the fictional writer and the reader... A work of understated but awesome power." —Outlook
"Inspired by the real hangman of Travancore, this fictionalised version has such depth of character, emotional authenticity and convincing technical detail that it could pass for a real autobiography." —Herald
"Inspired by the real hangman of Travancore, this fictionalised version has such depth of character, emotional authenticity and convincing technical detail that it could pass for a real autobiography." —Herald
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0857897500
- ISBN 13 9780857897503
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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