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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In a Nigerian town in the mid 1990's, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family. 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 1990's Nigeria, in the small village of Akure. When their strict 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 ominous, forbidden nearby river, they meet a dangerous local 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 its characters and its readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fishermen never leaves Akure but the story it tells has enormous universal...

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Author

Chigozie Obioma

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (359 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14