Hangman

A Novel

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Beschreibung

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree<br>Winner of the Bard Fiction PrizeLong-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and the Dublin Literary Award<br>Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vulture, and BBC<br><br>An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. / Nominiert: New Yorker Best Books of the Year, 2023.Nominiert: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee, 2024.Nominiert: Women's Prize for Fiction - Longlist, 2024

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780374610074

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

215 x 146 x 19 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Macmillan US