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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780957548855
- Categories BX, BXOS, F LIT, Fiction, H/C, Literary Fiction, X-Deals
- Author(s) Obioma Chigozie
- Publisher ONE
- Pages 304
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 21.6cm x 3.0cm x 13.5cm
- Weight 0.41 kg
product description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
Winner of the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award
Longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature
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.
