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In a Nigerian town in the mid-1990s, four brothers come across a madman whose mystic prophecy of assault threatens the key of the close-knit family. Told from the point of view of nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Anglers is the Cain and Abel-esque tale of an unforgettable youth in 1990s Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their demanding father must happen to be a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended lack to skip school and go sportfishing. With the ominous, forbidden nearby river, they meet an unhealthy local madman who persuades the oldest of the males that he is destined to be killed by one of is own siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact - both tragic and redemptive - will transcend the lives and imaginations of its people and its own listeners. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Anglers never leaves Akure, but the story it explains to has enormous widespread appeal. Seen through the prism of 1 family's future, this is an essential novel about Africa with all of its contradictions - economical, political, and religious - and the epic beauty of its culture. With this vibrant debut, Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature, echoing its aged generation's masterful storytelling with a modern day fearlessness and goal.
