Chigozie Obioma

The Fishermen (eBook, ePUB)

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ONE
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780992918255
• Artikelnr.: 42216001

Autorenporträt

Gbolahan Obisesan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His other plays include Zaida and Aadam, How Nigeria Became: A story, and a spear that didn't work, Hansel and Gretel, Mad About the Boy and Hold It Up, as well as stage adaptations of SS. Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill, based on a novel by Fred Khumalo, and Stephen Kelman's Pigeon English.