Hangwoman

‘An epic novel’-OutlookWhen 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? About the Author K.R. Meera is a multi-award-winning writer and journalist. She has published short stories novels and essays and has won some of the most prestigious literary prizes including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award the Vayalar Award and the Odakkuzhal Award. Most recently she won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Aarachar widely hailed as a contemporary classic and published by Penguin Books India as Hangwoman. She lives in Kottayam with her husband Dileep and daughter Shruthi.