The Chinese Executioner by Pierre Boulle
The Chinese Executioner

Pierre Boulle

The Chinese Executioner

Pierre Boulle with Xan Fielding (Translator)

160 pages first pub 1954 (editions)

dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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This is a very strange story. A Chinese executioner in the Middle Ages -- or at least at some far distant time unspecified -- is banned because it is discovered that he murders just before he executes! Good book about a Kafka-like society where yo...

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