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March 1 Book Club Meeting

All:

Our February meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 1st at 7pm in East Pyne 111.

Book Selection:

The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma (short-list for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, which was chaired by Princeton Comparative Literature Professor, Michael Wood: read more here)

  • The Fishermen is set in a small town in Nigeria in the mid-1990s. Four brothers, the youngest is nine, use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing in a forbidden river and encounter a dangerous local madman, Abulu, whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the very core of their close-knit family. He predicts that one of the brothers – a fisherman – will kill another. This evil prophecy of violence causes a deep rift between the brothers and starts to break the deep fraternal bonds, unleashing a tragic chain of events. Told by shy nine-year-old Benjamin, The Fishermen combines classic African storytelling with contemporary fiction, and illuminates Nigeria in all its historical, political and cultural complexity. (http://themanbookerprize.com/books/fishermen)

Enjoy!

Linsay

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Book Club: The Fisherman ( Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM )
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