The Fishermen

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

About the author

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.

Report

"In his exploration of the mysterious and the murderous, of the terrors that can take hold of the human mind, of the colors of life in Africa... and most of all in his ability to create dramatic tension in this most human of African stories, Chigozie Obioma truly is the heir to Chinua Achebe." (The New York Times)

"A confident début novel ... frank and lyrical (New Yorker)

"A startling debut... leaps off the pages." (Mariella Frostrup, BBC Radio 4 Open Book)

Product details

• Authors: Chigozie Obioma, Chigozie John Obioma
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9780957548855
• ISBN: 978-0-9575488-5-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Nigerianische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary