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.
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...
評分 評分对命运的恐惧,在虔诚的信仰的守护下,将会达到某种极致的程度,这是一个多么大的悲剧啊。 小说向我们描述了这个悲剧。 故事开始于1996年的尼日利亚,我们一家生育了六个孩子,父亲对我们的未来充满了希望。但随着父亲的调离到外地工作,我们兄弟之间逐渐产生了不可遏制的变...
評分对命运的恐惧,在虔诚的信仰的守护下,将会达到某种极致的程度,这是一个多么大的悲剧啊。 小说向我们描述了这个悲剧。 故事开始于1996年的尼日利亚,我们一家生育了六个孩子,父亲对我们的未来充满了希望。但随着父亲的调离到外地工作,我们兄弟之间逐渐产生了不可遏制的变...
評分2015布剋奬Shortlist作品,故事發生在尼日利亞,沒有在英國和美國,甚至加拿大那麼大氣,但是也是人生。2015年尾讀完的兩本書,我都嘔血推薦。
评分小孩子的世界我不懂。寫得確實非常不錯,隱喻我也能猜到幾分,然而不算是我的茶。
评分五顆星
评分This book left me confused at times… but really by that I mean by the strangeness of life.
评分以少年的視角講述發生在非洲的故事,雖然離我遙遠,但作品中的悲劇意味帶著超強的感染力。透過這部小說,也可以瞭解一些非洲文化。
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息,本站不存儲任何數據與內容,任何內容與數據均與本站無關,如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈圖書下載中心 版权所有