CHIGOZIE OBIOMA was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria. His short stories have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and New Madrid. He was a Fall 2012 OMI Fellow at Ledig House, New York. He has lived in Nigeria, Cyprus and Turkey, and currently resides in the United States, where he has completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. The Fishermen is his first novel.
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 town 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 appeal. Seen through the prism of one family's destiny, this is an essential novel about Africa with all of its contradictions-economic, political, and religious-and the epic beauty of its own culture.
With this bold debut, Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature, echoing its older generation's masterful storytelling with a contemporary fearlessness and purpose.
手足同心亲密无间的兄弟在疯子的预言下心生猜忌,最终原本幸福团结的一家一步步分崩离析,所有预言一一应验……尼日利亚作家奇戈希·奥比奥玛处女作《钓鱼的男孩》,似乎是同希腊神话中俄狄浦斯一样的因果倒置,关于命运不可抗的悲剧故事。 小说的叙事并不同一般小说那种按时...
评分我身邊有很多釣魚的人。週末開著自己的小車,或遠或近,在省境內各大大小小的河流、水庫,安營扎寨,好不悠閒。叔伯裡,釣魚上癮的,後備箱一直放著漁具,帳篷都是標配。 提到魚鉤,尤其奧班比跟本傑明用魚鉤行兇的場景,身上會不自主的扭曲。不相信兩個半大孩子會做出這麽兇...
1/3没有再读下去的欲望。。。
评分1/3没有再读下去的欲望。。。
评分Quite a page-turner. Finished reading it in one day.
评分小孩子的世界我不懂。写得确实非常不错,隐喻我也能猜到几分,然而不算是我的茶。
评分以少年的视角讲述发生在非洲的故事,虽然离我遥远,但作品中的悲剧意味带着超强的感染力。透过这部小说,也可以了解一些非洲文化。
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