Forfatter fødeår: 1986
New paperback edition of this highly acclaimed debut novel:SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEShortlisted for the Guardian First Book AwardWinner of the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices AwardLonglisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, a heart-wrenching epic about the tension between fate and free will.
Four brothers from a quiet middle-class family in Nigeria take advantage of their father’s extended absence to skip school and go fishing at a forbidden river. There they encounter a vision-seeing madman whose prophecy of violence will follow the boys through their lives.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, a heart-wrenching epic about the tension between fate and free will.