The Fishermen A Novel

Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, set in the town of Akure in the mid-1990s. When their strict father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing at a forbidden nearby river. At the river, they encounter a dangerous local madman named Abulu, who delivers a mystic prophecy that the oldest boy, Ikenna, is destined to be killed by a fisherman. This prophecy, which Ikenna interprets as meaning one of his own brothers will kill him, unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions that threatens the core of their close-knit family.

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