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In A Hanging Is Announced, a Peace Corps volunteer to the country of Sierra Leone joins a kind of carnival that he later finds out has been caused by crowds jostling to catch glimpses of corpses of five young men who have been executed for murder. An attorney for the defense tells him their stories as he had heard it from the condemned. The reader comes to understand the circumstances that led five young men, some of them quite promising, to murder and the gallows. The same events are seen from five different and, at times, conflicting points of view.