The Fishermen The Fishermen

The Fishermen

A Novel

    • 4.2 • 71 Ratings
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Publisher Description

In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family

Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers.

Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fisherman is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
April 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown and Company
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
3.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Mademoiselle Kimmy ,

Sensational

Beautiful!!! This book went 0 - 100 but it was a warm feeling at the end to soothe the cold grip of tragedies in the book. You need to read it!

Lizardbrain90 ,

Difficult to follow

This book is all over the place and hard to follow. Writing is mediocre. Got about 15% of the way through and stopped.

jscann ,

Average

The first half of this novel is very slow going. The second half reads better but it is also very melodramatic.

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