"The Fishermen" is set in a small town in Nigeria in the mid-1990s. Four brothers use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing in a forbidden river. There, they encounter a dangerous local madman, Abulu, whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the very core of their close-knit family. Told by shy nine-year-old Benjamin, whose love for animals lends the novel an almost mythic quality, "The Fishermen" combines classic African storytelling with the emotional fearlessness of contemporary fiction, and illuminates Nigeria in all its historical, political and cultural complexity.
The Fishermen: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
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