Binding: Hardcover
Description: National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Long - listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Vulture and BBC An enthralling and original first novel about exile diaspora and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond. In the morning I received a phone call and was told to board a flight. The arrangements had been made on my behalf. I packed no clothes because my clothes had been packed for me. A car arrived to pick me up. A man returns home to sub - Saharan Africa after twenty - six years in America. When he arrives he finds that he doesn t recognize the country or anyone in it. Thankfully someone recognizes him a man who calls him brother setting him on a quest to find his real brother who is dying. In Hangman Maya Binyam tells the story of that search and of the phantoms guides tricksters bureaucrats debtors taxi drivers relatives and riddles that will lead to the truth. This is an uncommonly assured debut: an existential journey; a tragic farce; a slapstick tragedy; and a strange and strangely honest story of one man's stubborn quest to find refuge in this world and in the world that lies beyond it.
Title: Hangman A Novel
Author(s): Binyam Maya
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374610074
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/8/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction