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Bezig met laden... The Fishermen (2015)door Chigozie Obioma
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Ik vond dit een bijzonder boek. De eerste helft van het boek vond ik het verhaal wat inconsistent en kabbelde het verhaal wat richtlingloos voort. Tot de eerste dramatische gebeurtenis. Vanaf dat moment komt niet alleen het verhaal in een nieuwe fase, maar wordt de stijl anders en krijgt het verhaal spanning en dynamiek. Ik stond dus op het punt om het boek weg te leggen, maar het tweede deel maakte alles goed. Meestal is het andersom, een goede start verzand in teveel plots. Maar Obioma is er in geslaagd om halverwege een versnelling aan te brengen. Heel knap. ( )
In his exploration of the mysterious and the murderous, of the terrors that can take hold of the human mind, of the colors of life in Africa, with its vibrant fabrics and its trees laden with fruit, and most of all in his ability to create dramatic tension in this most human of African stories, Chigozie Obioma truly is the heir to Chinua Achebe. Set in 1990s Nigeria against a backdrop of modernisation, westernisation and political upheaval, The Fishermen tells the story of four brothers whose lives are destroyed by a madman’s prophecy. Using myth to great effect, Obioma explores the customs of the community of Akure, detailing how the fates of its people are intricately linked to their beliefs. The narrator is nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of the brothers, whose imaginative world view lends a striking voice to the tale. In a book that is loaded with metaphor, where parents speak in parables to warn their children of danger, many of the chapters start with Ben likening his family to animals: “Ikenna was a python: A wild snake that became a monstrous serpent living on trees, on plains above other snakes.” These comparisons mark changes in characters and presage the dangers to come. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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HTML:A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe." 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, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, THE FISHERMEN is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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