Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Hangman

Maya Binyam
3.57/5 (1413 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
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, riddles, and strangers that will lead to the truth.

It 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.
Format:
Pages:
194 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
037461007X
ISBN13:
9780374610074
kindle Asin:
B0BBC8RXZY

Hangman

Maya Binyam
3.57/5 (1413 ratings)
Read Download
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, riddles, and strangers that will lead to the truth.

It 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.
Format:
Pages:
194 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
037461007X
ISBN13:
9780374610074
kindle Asin:
B0BBC8RXZY

More Books

In Defence of the Act

Effie Black

A Trace of Sun

Pam Williams

The Blue, Beautiful World

Karen Lord

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Mirinae Lee

River East, River West

Aube Rey Lescure

Nightbloom

Peace Adzo Medie

And Then She Fell

Alicia Elliott

Restless Dolly Maunder

Kate Grenville

Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan

Soldier Sailor

Claire Kilroy