Two Fiction Debuts: Dieokoye Oyeyinka's "Stillborn" and Chigozie Obioma's "The Fisherman"
October being the month that I celebrate Nigerian literature, here are two new releases from two young Nigerian authors. One is out now and the other will be published in early 2015. Enjoy!!!!
The second, The Fishermen, comes from debut novelist Chigozie Obioma. Published by ONE (an imprint of Pushkin Press), The Fishermen tells the story of what happens to nine-year-old Benjamin and his brothers after their father accepts a job transfer to a faraway city and the four boys go fishing in the river that snakes through their small town in western Nigeria. Near the river, a place the town's people are forbidden to go, the four close-knit brothers encounter a local vision-seeing madman, Abulu, whose prophecy of violence threatens the core of their family. When Benjamin's brothers assume one brother will kill the other, an extraordinary tension is created, and a chain of events is set in motion that threatens to change the course of Benjamin's life and even that of the entire community.
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