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Next Society Event: 21st Jan 2025 - Book Club - ONLINE - Hangman
Online event starting at 19:00 GMT - Public event (all welcome to join).
Note - Register for the event on Eventbrite and you'll be emailed a Zoom link shortly before the event.
For this book club we're going to discuss Hangman by Maya Binyam.
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 strangely honest story of one man's search for refuge - in this world and the one that lies beyond it.
Book a place using Eventbrite in order to be sent a link to the session. More registration details are on the Eventbrite page.
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Hangman by Maya Binyam Publisher : Pushkin One, 2024 ISBN : 9781911590798 (paperback) UK RRP £9.99 ISBN : 9781911590774 (hardback) UK RRP £16.99 |