The fishermen : a novel /

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Author / Creator:Obioma, Chigozie, 1986- author.
Edition:First North American edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Description:297 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:Brothers -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Fishers -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Fratricide -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Brothers.
Fishers.
Fratricide.
Nigeria -- Fiction.
Nigeria.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10156309
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ISBN:9780316338370
0316338370
Summary:"Told from the point of view of nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they encounter a madman who predicts that one of the brothers will kill another. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact--both tragic and redemptive--will transcend the lives and imaginations of The Fishermen's characters and its readers"--Page 4 of cover.

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