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About The Fishermen: A Novel
Product Description A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe." Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque 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 impact-both tragic and redemptive-will 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. Review Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction) Winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Debut Author) Winner of the 2015 FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize Finalist for the 2015 Guardian First Book Award Finalist for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize Longlisted for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature Named a Best Book of the Year on more than a dozen lists, including the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and NPR "Entrancing.... Its rising tension and poetic grace make this one of the finest novels to come from Africa in years."-- Wall Street Journal "Best Books of 2015" "In its exploration of the murderous and the mysterious, the mind's terrors and a vibrant Africa, this debut novel is heir to Chinua Achebe."-- New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "Engrossing.... [Obioma's] language is rich and hypnotic, and nearly every page is filled with an unexpected and perfectly rendered description.... This is a dark and beautiful book by a writer with seemingly endless promise."-- Michael Schaub, NPR "The most frustrating thing about THE FISHERMEN is that the author has no other books for the reader to devour once the final page is reached."-- Trine Tsouderos, Chicago Tribune "[A] darkly mythic first novel [that] feels as if it might predate modernity itself.... It's hard to know where Obioma...can go with his literary career after this pitiless, unstinting start.... Perhaps he will become a kind of African Cormac McCarthy, committed to a stark vision of life in which our pretensions to civilization are forever held up and exposed as skin deep: that what really runs us is deeper down, in the blood."-- Kevin Nance, USA Today (3/4 stars) "A striking, controlled and masterfully taut debut.... The tale has a timeless quality that renders it almost allegorical and it is the more powerful for it."-- Financial Times "Part Bildungsroman, part Greek tragedy, THE FISHERMEN may be the most interesting debut novel to emerge from Nigeria this year.... In a first novel full of deceptive simplicity, lyrical language and playful Igbo mythology and humour, [Obioma] uses the madman's apocalyptic vision for the family as a way of conjuring up Nigeria's senseless body politic. Even a child can tell that this is no way to run a country. And yet for Benjamin, a narrator caught up in tragedy, there is also redemption. This is an impressive and beautifully imagined work."-- The Economist "Frank and lyrical."-- New Yorker "Arresting.... Obioma brings terrific authorial dexterity to the family's story and its small place in Nigeria, and evokes a worldview which brings with it a terrible tragedy. This is the best novel I have read so far this year, and that, I can assure you, is saying plenty."-- Kathrine A. Powers, Christian Science Monitor "Inspired by his native Nigeria and, by extension, the contra
