The Fishermen

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Astonishing remarkable, mythic Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple Impressive and beautifully imagined EconomistIn a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers take advantage of 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 boy will be killed by one of his brothers This prophecy unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions. Free Read The Fishermen author Chigozie Obioma For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Oh, how I loved the end of this book It made my heart soar.Really, really well done debut novel that is worthy of the Man Booker shortlisting It is a family drama with overtones of a Greek tragedy The story is narrated by Ben, both as a 10 year old child and an adult man looking back Ben is the 4th son of a tightly knit Nigerian family that begins to unravel when the disciplinarian father takes a job at the Nigerian Central Bank in another city Without the father s watchful eyes on them, Oh, how I loved the end of this book It made my heart soar.Really, really well done debut novel that is worthy of the Man Booker shortlisting It is a family drama with overtones of a Greek tragedy The story is narrated by Ben, both as a 10 year old child and an adult man looking back Ben is the 4th son of a tightly knit Nigerian family that begins to unravel when the disciplinarian father takes a job at the Nigerian Central Bank in another city Without the father s watchful eyes on them, the four oldest boys decide they are going to become fishermen For six weeks, the brothers and their friends tramp down to the f...4.5 stars The madman has entered our house with violence Defiling our sacred grounds Claiming the single truth of the universe Bending down our high priests with iron Ah yes the children, Who walked on our Forefathers graves Shall be stricken with madness They shall grow the fangs of the lizard They shall devour each other before our eyes And by ancient command It is forbidden to stop thempoem by Mazisi Kunene, the epigraph to The FishermenChigozie Obioma s talent as a powerful 4.5 stars The madman has entered our house with violence Defiling our sacred grounds Claiming the single ...This review has been long overdue I read The Fishermen some time ago following a brilliant review by the African Book Addict before the Booker long list was announced and I jumped right into the novel, with no inkling that it would fast become one of my favourite books of the year.Written from the perspective of younger brother Benjamin, the novel follows the lives of four Nigerian brothers from a close knit family, their prophetic encounter with a madman and the devastating effect that one This review has been long overdue I read The Fishermen some time ago following a brilliant review by the African Book Addict before the Booker long list was announced and I jumped right into the novel, with no inkling that it would fast become one of my favourite books of the year.Written from the perspective of younger brother Benjamin, the novel follows the lives of four Nigerian brothers from a close knit family, their prophetic encounter with a madman and the devastating effect that one moment can generate This notion of external forces wreaking havoc and destroying the great potential of the family is perhaps an allegory for Nigeria, the resource rich nation whose own story could be very different were it not for the ravages of foreign colonialism and internal corruption But I digress Whilst there is indeed ...m just floored right now This is a dark, haunting, tragic, heart wrenching BUT amazing story of 4 brothers and their family and a madman Abulu Right when you think things get better and the craziness plateaus, something pops up I feel like I know knew Ikenna, Boja, Obembe and Ben their love and brotherhood are so dear to me, I don t know why Chigozie Obioma wrote about these boys in such a tender way that had me ALLLLL in my feelings I felt m just floored right now This is a dark, haunting, tragic, heart wrenching BUT amazing story of 4 brothers and their family and a madman Abulu Right when you think things get better and the craziness plateaus, something pops u...This book has been on my reading list for a solid two years and I m thrilled I finally picked it up The Fishermen captures the complex dynamics of brotherhood at a young age in a way that harbors both natural sentimentality and literary gravitas Narrated by Ben, a nine year old Nigerian boy with four brothers living in a rural town, Obioma s novel is adeptly attuned to how enormous and wondrous everything seems during childhood, but what makes The Fishermen truly remarkable is the author s This book has been on my reading list for a solid two years and I m thrilled I finally picked it up The Fishermen captures the complex dynami...I loved this story from the start The first quarter of the novel had me chuckling and nodding my head in recognition at the family dynamics, especially when it comes to strict Education Education parents Chigozie s imagery and metaphors are superb, and something in the prose and unfolding of events gives the story a magical realism bent, though everything is plausible Really, the story is presented as a fable, with nearly each chapter named after an animal and beginning with who that anim...Oh yeah, definitely a must read This was good good Igbo village storytelling If anyone s work should be compared to Chinua Achebe, it s this one But it s also got its own unique voice There were times when it meandered a bit too much for my taste sometimes there were details that felt included in order to pull the voice away from the point of view of a ten year old these felt heavy handed and often out of place but these moments didn t keep me from continuing It s not a perfect n... The Fishermen tells the story of a family in ruins after a madman s prophesy drives one brother to be plagued with fear Obioma utilizes a lot of mythological and folkloric story telling techniques, especially drawing on the natural world It reads much like a parable, and I can t help but think that certain parts, especially the title, are direct biblical allusions.I ll admit I wasn t a big fan of the first half of this story It seems disjointed and focused on setting up the atmosphere of the The Fishermen tells the story of a family in ruins after a madman s prophesy drives one brother to be plagued with fear Obioma utilizes a lot of mythological and folkloric story telling techniques, especially drawing on the natural world It reads much like a parable, and I can t help but think that certain parts, especially the title, are direct biblical allusions.I ll admit I wasn t a big fan of the first half of this story It seems disjointed and focused on setting up the atmosphere of the boys Nigerian hometown, Akure, along with the transformation their family undergoes But about halfway through something happens that triggers the events to come as well as brings together some elements from the beginning, and that prop...Some books need to be read aloud so that the texture comes across in sound Chukwudi Iwuji did an excellent job of performing this book, at times changing his intonations to suit the mood, switching to Igbo or Yoruba accents, paying attention to words and dialect and meaning in sound This was a joy to listen to on several three hour car journeys The past and present are beautifully intertwined in this story of brothers Told from the retrospect of one brother who has just spent a few years as Some books need to be read aloud so that the texture comes across in sound Chukwudi Iwuji did an excellent job of performing this book, at times changing his intonations to suit the mood, switching to Igbo or Yoruba accents, paying attention to words and dialect and meaning in sound This was a joy to listen to on several three hour car journeys The past and present are beautifully intertwined in this story of brothers Told from the retrospect of one brother who has just spent a few years as a minor in prison, this is a story of boys who come of age in an economically disadvantaged town in Nigeria Their parents are determined to raise their four oldest sons to be professors, lawyers, or doctors, when a strange tragedy befalls their family At the center of this tragedy is a mentally unstable man whose mental health is the result of traumatic brain injury from a car accident, a man who has no he...This novel was selected for my book club, but I actually skipped the meeting since I didn t want to heap negativity on other people who may have liked it But here, no one is stuck in a room with me so I ll let it rip The Fishermen takes place in Nigeria in the mid 90s It s the story of four brothers in a small village who sneak out to the river a place they are forbidden to go and fish One day, a terrifying, mentally ill man foretells that the oldest one will be killed by one of the others This novel was selected for my book club, but I actually skipped the meeting since I didn t want to heap negativity on other ...

The Fishermen
  • English
  • 07 January 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 304 pages
  • 0316338370
  • Chigozie Obioma
  • The Fishermen