The Strangers : Hamish Hamilton : 9780241472026 : 0241472024 : 19 Sep 2024 : LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025 A Book of the Year 2024 in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and Observer Richly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home 'Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book' Bernardine Evaristo 'Luminous and extraordinary... This book will be referenced for years to come' Lemn Sissay In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in their own right but the representative of a type. What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? And what happens beneath the mask? In answer, Ekow Eshun conjures t