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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015, debut author Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen takes you to a Nigerian small town where four young brothers encounter with a madman threatens the core of their family.The Cain and Abel-esque story is told from the point of view of Benjamin, the youngest of the four brothers. As their father travels to a distant city for work, Benjamin and his brothers skip school and go fishing. But when they end up at a forbidden river, a madman tells them that one day one of the brothers will kill another...What follows is an almost mythic event with an impact that is both tragic and redemptive.

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In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers - the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen - use their strict father´s absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another. This prophesy breaks their strong bond and unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions. Passionate and bold, ´´The Fishermen´´ is a breathtakingly beautiful novel firmly rooted in the best of African storytelling.With this powerful debut, Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature.

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"The Fishermen" is set in a small town in Nigeria in the mid-1990s. Four brothers use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing in a forbidden river. There, they encounter a dangerous local madman, Abulu, whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the very core of their close-knit family. Told by shy nine-year-old Benjamin, whose love for animals lends the novel an almost mythic quality, "The Fishermen" combines classic African storytelling with the emotional fearlessness of contemp, In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers - the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen - use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another. This prophesy breaks their strong bond and unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions. Passionate and bold, "The Fishermen" is a breathtakingly beautiful novel firmly rooted in the best of African storytelling.With this powerful debut, Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature.

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The Fishermen, In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers - the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen - use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another. This prophesy breaks their strong bond and unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions. Passionate and bold, "The Fishermen" is a breathtakingly beautiful novel firmly rooted in the best of African storytelling.With this powerful debut, Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature.

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Shelf wear to dust jacket. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday. Hardcover, Label: One, One, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2015-02-26, Studio: One, Verkaufsrang: 2348088.

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Fiction, The Fishermen, SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZEIn this dazzling debut novel, four young brothers in a small Nigerian town encounter a madman, whose prophecy of violence threatens the core of their familyTold from the point of view of nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers,The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river they encounter a madman, who predicts that one of the brothers will kill another. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact - both tragic and redemptive - will transcend the lives and imaginations of both its characters and its readers. Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the best new voices of modern African literature, echoing its older generation's masterful storytelling with a contemporary fearlessness and purpose.'Obioma's beautiful, quasi-biblical allegory-like debut... is set to be one of the novels of the year' Eileen Battersby,Irish Times 'A startling debut... auspicious... leaps off the pages' Mariella Frostrup,Open Book 'A striking, controlled and masterfully taut debut... The tale has a timeless quality that renders it almost allegorical and it is the more powerful for it'FT 'It's like being in a Zola or Theodore Dreiser novel... The Fishermen is an elegy to lost promise and yet it remains hopeful about the redemptive possibilities of a new generation'Guardian 'Awesome in the true sense of the word... a truly magnificent debut' Eleanor Catton, author ofThe Luminaries 'Suffused with an air of legend and the supernatural... The Fishermen establishes Obioma as a writer to be taken seriously... ingenious, subtle, ambitious and intriguing'TLS 'Terrific'Irish Examiner 'Full of deceptive simplicity, lyrical language and playful Igbo mythology and humour... an impressive and beautifully imagined work' Economist'A novel with an intimate canvas but also an undercurrent of something larger, more primal'We Love This Book 'A debut that is packed with power and tragedy'Shortlist 'Chigozie Obioma truly is the heir to Chinua Achebe'The New York Times 'Mr Obioma's long-limbed and elegant writing is shot through with strikingly elevated phrasings its lessons may be slippery, but its power is unmistakable'Wall Street Journal 'The most frustrating thing aboutThe Fishermen is that the author has no other books for the reader to devour once the final page is reached'Chicago Tribune 'Searing, incandescent'Harvard Crimson 'Succeeds as a convincing modern narrative and as a majestic reimagining of timeless folklore'Publisher's Weekly , Starred review'A powerful, haunting tale of grief, healing, and sibling loyalty'Kirkus 'Darkly mythic... a kind of African Cormac McCarthy'USA Today '[A] confident dbut novel... frank and lyrical'New Yorker, eBook.