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02765aam a22003737i 4500 001 F2537A28F50B11E7A6193F6E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180109010327 008 140919s2014 ii 000 1 eng 010 $a 2014357476 020 $a 0670086541 020 $a 9780670086542 035 $a (OCoLC)892788238 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d DKAGE $d CDX $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h mal 042 $a lcode 082 04 $a 894.812372 $2 23 100 1 $a MiÌra, Ke. AÌr., $d 1970- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015230253 240 10 $a AÌraÌccaÌr. $l English 245 10 $a Hangwoman / $c K.R. Meera ; translated from the Malayalam by J. Devika. 264 1 $a Gurgaon : $b Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, $c 2014. 300 $a 439 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Novel. 520 $a The Grddha Mullicks take pride in the ancient lineage they trace from four hundred years before Christ. They burst with marvellous tales of hangmen and hangings in which the Grddha Mullicks figure as eyewitnesses to the momentous events that have shaped the history of the subcontinent. In the present day, Chetna, the youngest member of the family, is appointed the first woman executioner in India. Thrust suddenly into the public eye, Chetna's life explodes under the harsh lights of television cameras. As the day of her first execution approaches, she breaks out of the shadow of a domineering father and the thrall of a brutally manipulative lover, transforming into a charismatic performer in her own right. Meera's spectacular imagination turns the story of Chetna's life into an epic and perverse coming-of-age tale. Will the ardent young woman be able to escape the love that binds her? Will she add lustre to the illustrious name of Grddha Mullick? Or will she succumb to the dazzle of celebrity and the thrill of power over life and death? 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 0 $a Executions and executioners $v Fiction. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103406 650 0 $a Hangings $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-realization in women $v Fiction. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010112569 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103507 655 0 $a Malayalam fiction $v Translations into English. 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 700 1 $a Devika, J., $e translator. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002085439 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180109041816.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2537A28F50B11E7A6193F6E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search