In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of the former princely state 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. The Last Hangman is a remarkable and haunting novel, a meditation on death and what it means to end a life. This powerful and harrowing book explores a great moral question: what differentiates a killer in the cause of just from a murderer?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Atlantic Books
ISBN-13
9780857897503
eBay Product ID (ePID)
176930927
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Last Hangman
Author
Shashi Warrier
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Books
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Historical
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
197mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
165g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Shashi Warrier
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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