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The Fishermen Hardcover - 2015

by Chigozie Obioma


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A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe." 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.

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  • Title The Fishermen
  • Author Chigozie Obioma
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition, F
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York
  • Date 2015-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780316338370 / 0316338370
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.63 x 6.33 x 1 in (24.46 x 16.08 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Prophecies, Brothers
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014959603
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.92

About the author

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His debut novel, The Fishermen, is winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Prizes); and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize 2015, as well as for several other prizes in the US and UK. Obioma was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages and adapted into stage. He is an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, was a finalist for the 2019 Booker Prize.
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