Synopses & Reviews
In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of Travancore commits his life to paper. Into seven notebooks he remembers the men he has killed, calmly calling to mind the final struggles of the men 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. It is a challenging and harrowing book that explores a great moral question: when does someone who kills become a murderer?
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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
Review
"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
About the Author
Shashi Warrier was born in Kerala in 1959. He is the author of three thrillers, Night of the Krait, The Orphan, and Sniper. He has written two children's books, The Hidden Continent and Suzy's Gift.