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020 _a9780143424697
082 _a894.812372
_bMEE
100 _aMeera, K.R.
_912831
245 _aHangwoman
260 _bPenguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd.
_aHaryana
_c2014
300 _a439 p.
365 _aINR
_b599.00
520 _ahe Grddha Mullick family bursts with marvellous tales of hangmen and hangings in which they figure as eyewitnesses to the momentous events that have shaped the history of the subcontinent. When twenty-two-year-old Chetna Grddha Mullick is appointed the first woman executioner in India, assistant and successor to her father, her life explodes under the harsh lights of television cameras. When the day of the execution arrives, will she bring herself to take a life? Meera's spectacular imagination turns the story of Chetna's life into an epic and perverse coming-of-age tale. The lurid pleasures of voyeurism and the punishing ironies of violence are kept in agile balance as the drama hurtles to its inevitable climax.
650 _aExecutions and executioners
_912832
650 _aSelf-realization in women
_912833
650 _aCapital punishment
_912834
942 _2ddc
_cBK
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