The Fishermen
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
(Sprache: Englisch)
"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...
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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 contemporary fiction, and illuminates Nigeria in all its historical, political and cultural complexity.
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma, 1986 in Nigeria geboren, studierte Englisch, Literatur und Kreatives Schreiben auf Zypern und an der University of Michigan. Er gewann die Hopwood Awards für "fiction and poetry", seine Essays erschienen u. a. in Virginia Quarterly Review und Transition.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chigozie Obioma
- 2015, 304 Seiten, Masse: 13,9 x 22,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Pushkin Press
- ISBN-10: 0957548850
- ISBN-13: 9780957548855
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The Fishermen “
"In his exploration of the mysterious and the murderous, of the terrors that can take hold of the human mind, of the colors of life in Africa... and most of all in his ability to create dramatic tension in this most human of African stories, Chigozie Obioma truly is the heir to Chinua Achebe." (The New York Times)"A confident début novel ... frank and lyrical (New Yorker)
"A startling debut... leaps off the pages." (Mariella Frostrup, BBC Radio 4 Open Book)
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