Explanation of the book
Section: Translated novels
Number of pages: 376 pages
Publisher: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press
In Nigeria during the 1990s, four brothers from a quiet middle-class family, the eldest of whom is fifteen and the youngest nine, take advantage of their father’s long absences to skip school and go fishing in a river where fishing is forbidden. There, they meet Apollo, a soothsayer whose prophecy of the four’s fates being tied to violence haunts them throughout their lives, and the family is devastated and cathartic.
ISBN: 9789927119057 |