Ebook {Epub PDF} The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

 · 'The Fishermen' Ventures Into Dark Waters Chigozie Obioma's novel follows a group of young boys who disobey their elders to spend afternoons fishing on the banks of an unlucky river, and the Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.  · The Fishermen is the story of four brothers (Ikenna, Boja, Obembe and Benjamin) whose lives are destroyed by an encounter with Abulu, a madman whose terrible prophecies of people in Author: Tiziana Morosetti.  · B ased on Chigozie Obioma ’s Man Booker prize-nominated novel of the same name, Gbolahan Obisesan ’s script for The Fishermen Author: Bridget Minamore.

Few novels deserve to be called 'mythic,' but Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen is certainly one of them. A truly magnificent debut." - Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries (Man Booker Prize) "I find the author Chigozie Obioma formidably articulate and with great talent. Chigozie Obioma made his literary debut in with The Fishermen, a tragic tale about four brothers whose lives are derailed by the fatal prophecy of a madman. This is reminiscent of Okonkwo's fate in Achebe's masterpiece Things Fall Apart as the hero's tragic end is propelled by the meeting of inside and outside forces. The Fishermen Chigozie Obioma 1st Printing First Edition Hardcover Book and jacket have some wear (see pics).

'The Fishermen' Ventures Into Dark Waters Chigozie Obioma's novel follows a group of young boys who disobey their elders to spend afternoons fishing on the banks of an unlucky river, and the. The political implications of “The Fishermen” are obvious, though never ­overstated. Countries can take a wrong turn, Obioma suggests, just as people can. In six decades of independence. Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His debut novel, The Fishermen, is winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Prizes); and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize , as well as for several other prizes in the US and UK.