They say that the hangman's job is an art.Positioning the knot under the prisoner's ear is the most important part of the job;get it exactly right and there's not a quiver from the rope except for that little jerk at the drop,when his neck breaks.A f...
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 ...