The Fishermen

Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, this brilliant debut novel by the 'heir to Chinua Achebe' tells the story of four young brothers growing up in a small town in Nigeria, who encounter a dangerous local madman whose prophesy that the oldest brother will be killed by another breaks their strong bond and unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions.

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 prophecy 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.

Vorwort

New paperback edition of this highly acclaimed debut novel:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
Winner of the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award
Longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature

Autorentext
Chigozie Obioima was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria, and currently lives in the United States. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA in Creative Writing, and is now an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Obioma is the winner of the 2015 FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award. The Fishermen is his first novel.

Zusammenfassung
New paperback edition of this highly acclaimed debut novel:SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEShortlisted for the Guardian First Book AwardWinner of the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices AwardLonglisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature