Dimensions
154 x 233 x 21mm
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015
In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers – the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen – use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river.
The encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another. This prophesy breaks their strong bond, and unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions.
Passionate and bold, The Fishermen is a breathtakingly beautiful novel, firmly rooted in the best of African storytelling.
