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The fishermen, a novel, Chigozie Obioma

Label
The fishermen, a novel, Chigozie Obioma
Language
eng
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Form of composition
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Literary text for sound recordings
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Main title
The fishermen
Music parts
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Oclc number
909034934
Responsibility statement
Chigozie Obioma
Sub title
a novel
Summary
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. 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 sibling
Target audience
adult
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