Intro; Title Page; Welcome; Dedication; Epigraph; Map; Chapter 1: Fishermen; Chapter 2: The River; Chapter 3: The Eagle; Chapter 4: The Python; Chapter 5: The Metamorphosis; Chapter 6: The Madman; Chapter 7: The Falconer; Chapter 8: The Locusts; Chapter 9: The Sparrow; Chapter 10: The Fungus; Chapter 11: The Spiders; Chapter 12: The Searchdog; Chapter 13: The Leech; Chapter 14: The Leviathan; Chapter 15: The Tadpole; Chapter 16: The Roosters; Chapter 17: The Moth; Chapter 18: The Egrets; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Newsletters; Table of Contents; Copyright
Summary
-- The Fishermen 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.
In a Nigerian town in the mid-1990s, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family.