The Fishermen

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015

Chigozie Obioma

• Publisher: ONE
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780957548855
• eBook ISBN:
  9780992918255
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

In this dazzling debut novel, four young brothers in a small Nigerian town encounter a madman, whose prophecy of violence threatens the core of their family Told 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Map
• Contents
• 1: FISHERMEN
• 2: THE RIVER
• 3: THE EAGLE
• 4: THE PYTHON
• 5: THE METAMORPHOSIS
• 6: THE MADMAN
• 7: THE FALCONER
• 8: THE LOCUSTS
• 9: THE SPARROW
• 10: THE FUNGUS
• 11: THE SPIDERS
• 12: THE SEARCHDOG
• 13: THE LEECH
• 14: THE LEVIATHAN
• 15: THE TADPOLE
• 16: THE ROOSTERS
• 17: THE MOTH
• 18: THE EGRETS
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright
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