The Last Execution
Called "brilliantly devastating" in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, this award-winning, mesmerizing novel, based on the chilling true story .. Lire la suite
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Called "brilliantly devastating" in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews,
this award-winning, mesmerizing novel, based on the chilling true story
of the last execution in Denmark's history, asks a question that
plagues a small Danish town: does a fifteen-year-old boy deserve to be
put to death?
The master carpenter comes to measure Niels for his coffin.
The master baker bakes bread for the spectators.
The messenger posts the notice of execution in the town square.
The poet prepares his best pen to record the events as they unfold.
A fly, Niels's only companion in the cell, buzzes.
A dog hovers by his young master's window.
A young girl hovers too, pitying the boy.
The executioner sharpens his blade. This
remarkable, wrenching story is told with the alternating perspectives
of eleven different bystanders--one per hour--as the clock ticks ever
closer to the moment when the boy must face his fate. Niels Nielson, a
young peasant, was sentenced to death by beheading on the dubious
charges of arson and murder. Does he have the right to live despite what
he is accused of? That is the question the townsfolk ask as the
countdown begins. With strong social conscience, piercing intellect, and
masterful storytelling, Jesper Wung-Sung explores the age-old question:
who determines who has the right to live or die?
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