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      The Last Hangman

      by Shashi Warrier
      Published
      May 2014
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      240
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      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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      General Fiction

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      First Edition May 2014 Atlantic Books (UK) ISBN 0857897500
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      May 2013 Atlantic Books (UK) ISBN 0857897497
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      May 2014 Atlantic Books ISBN B00MLDE33Y
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      May 2014 Atlantic Books ISBN 0857897519
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