9781911590781_

A gripping tale of homecoming and loss ruthlessly honest and startlingly beautiful profound and unforgettable Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King

Daring, intellectually rich, and unsettlingly hilarious. We have a powerful new voice in Maya Binyam, one who knows how to make a story sing Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun

A subtle and peculiar novel about subtle and peculiar things home, exile, injustice, family, return and life itself a remarkable book Keith Ridgway, author of A Shock

A strikingly masterful debut a clean, sharp, piercing and deeply political novel Namwali Serpell, author of The Furrows

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A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years living in exile in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesnt 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 mans 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 strangely honest story of one mans 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.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024

A brilliantly surreal story of exile and homecoming GUARDIANS BOOK OF THE DAY

A slim, stark, and captivatingly enigmatic début NEW YORKER

A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years living in exile in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesnt recognize the country or anyone in it. Thankfully, someone at the airport knows hima man who calls him brother. As they travel to this mans house, the purpose of his visit comes into focus: he is here to find his real brother, who is dying.

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH, VULTURE, FRIEZE, BBC, READERS DIGEST

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MORE PRAISE FOR HANGMAN:

Urgent and emotionally resonant VOGUE

Reinvents the novel of return keeps you hooked MONICA ALI

Melancholic but weirdly hopeful FT

Remarkably assured and distinctive TLS

Laconic and darkly humorous FRIEZE

A striking masterful debut NAMWALI SERPELL

A bravura twist on the immigrant novel DAILY MAIL

Ruthlessly honest and startingly beautiful MAAZA MENGISTE

Daring, intellectually rich, and unsettlingly hilarious ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN

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