Hangman

SKU: 9781911590798
Hangman

Hangman

SKU: 9781911590798
Author: Maya Binyam
Paperback·Ages 18+·Contemporary Fiction
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At a glance

🖤 Tone
Surreal, introspective, darkly humorous
⚡ Pace
Slow-burning, reflective
🌍 Vibes
Displacement, dreamlike uncertainty, identity confusion, existential wandering
✨ Themes
Migration, belonging, memory, identity, alienation
🧠 Emotional Journey
Strange, thought-provoking, emotionally resonant
📖 Hook
A man returning to an unfamiliar homeland navigates fragmented memories, cultural dislocation, and surreal encounters that blur the boundaries between reality and identity
💫 Perfect For
Readers who enjoy experimental literary fiction exploring migration, identity, and emotional estrangement

A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years living in exile in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn't recognize the country, or anyone in it. Thankfully, someone at the airport knows him - a man who calls him brother. As they travel to this man's house, the purpose of his visit comes into focus: he is here to find his real brother, who is dying.

Hangman is his tragicomic journey through homecoming and loss. It is a hilarious and twisted odyssey, peopled by phantoms and tricksters, aid workers and taxi drivers, the relatives and riddles that lead this man along a circuitous path towards the truth. This is the strangley honest story of one man's search for refuge in this world and the one that lies beyond it.

An existential journey, a tragic farce, a slapstick tragedy: Hangman is the shockingly original debut novel about exile, diaspora and the search for Black refuge, from a thrilling new literary voice

Book details

Format
Paperback
Reading age
18+
Pages
208
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Published
1 August 2024
Language
English
ISBN
9781911590798

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