SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 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
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 prophesy 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.
- ISBN10 0957548869
- ISBN13 9780957548862
- Publish Date 3 March 2016 (first published 26 February 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 April 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pushkin Press
- Imprint ONE
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English