CHIGOZIE OBIOMA was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria. His short stories have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and New Madrid. He was a Fall 2012 OMI Fellow at Ledig House, New York. He has lived in Nigeria, Cyprus and Turkey, and currently resides in the United States, where he has completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. The Fishermen is his first novel.
发表于2024-11-22
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文/吴情 二零一五年,美国内部拉斯加-林肯大学文学与创意写作助理教授奇戈希•奥比奥玛出版了《钓鱼的男孩》(The Fisherman)一书,这部小说处女作甫一出版,便入围了当年的布克奖短名单,不少批评家表示赞赏。布克奖得主埃莉诺•卡顿写道:“这本小说只能用‘令...
评分小说的节奏让我有点晕炫,总觉得没按我预期的来,以致读完会立刻想要重新来一遍。 男孩的视角与口吻很容易构成奇特的魅力,催泪的同时,也激发了一时说不清道不明的内心震荡,除了陌生的非洲文化对这个悲情故事的加持,肯定也与作者别致的叙事方式有关。 至于怀疑会凭空酿出...
评分 评分四个男孩本不该去那条被诅咒的河边钓鱼。如果没有去那里,这场古希腊式的悲剧或许永远不会揭开序幕…… 小说《钓鱼的男孩》以一个悬念开场。这是一部非常罕见的小说,它的文本是一个矛盾体,在构建闭合的、自成一体的古希腊式悲剧的同时,又试图找到一个古典悲剧和现代世界的接...
评分图书标签: 非洲小说 英文原版 布克奖短名单 尼日利亚 小说 非洲 鬼知道什么时候才会读到 长篇小说
In a Nigerian town in the mid 1990's, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family.
Told from the point of view of nine year old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990's Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their strict father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. At the ominous, forbidden nearby river, they meet a dangerous local 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 its characters and its readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, The Fishermen never leaves Akure but the story it tells has enormous universal appeal. Seen through the prism of one family's destiny, this is an essential novel about Africa with all of its contradictions-economic, political, and religious-and the epic beauty of its own culture.
With this bold debut, Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature, echoing its older generation's masterful storytelling with a contemporary fearlessness and purpose.
This book left me confused at times… but really by that I mean by the strangeness of life.
评分2015布克奖Shortlist作品,故事发生在尼日利亚,没有在英国和美国,甚至加拿大那么大气,但是也是人生。2015年尾读完的两本书,我都呕血推荐。
评分This book left me confused at times… but really by that I mean by the strangeness of life.
评分故事、叙事都好
评分小孩子的世界我不懂。写得确实非常不错,隐喻我也能猜到几分,然而不算是我的茶。
The Fishermen 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书