The Fishermen: A Novel

The Fishermen: A Novel

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Brand: Back Bay Books
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In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their closeknit familyTold by nineyearold Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abelesque 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 impactboth tragic and redemptivewill 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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