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Going Home

Harriet Evans

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Home should be a place where you can relax, escape your worries and hide away in comfort with your...

Return to Lerici (The Invisibles #2)

Rachel Dacus

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Family secrets, legacies, and the power of forgiveness – a new story by the author of The...

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The Fixer

Joseph Finder

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What secrets are his family keeping? A month ago, Rick Hoffman was a popular journalist. Now, having...

Alice in Zombieland - White Rabbit Chronicles

Gena Showalter

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She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever. Had anyone...

The Lost Ones

Anita Frank

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Some houses are never at peace. England, 1917 Reeling from the death of her fiancé, Stella...

Defy Me (Shatter Me #5)

Tahereh Mafi

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The gripping fifth installment in the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling...

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Fishermen in Books

Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 10, 2017)

The Fishermen

Jon Gray, Chigozie Obioma | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

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A heartbreaking elegy to Nigeria's lost promise

A beautiful and deeply tragic story exploring a family's secrets based in Nigeria. The novel follows four brothers in a small Nigerian village who are given a violent prophecy which shakes their family to the core.

Like most classic African novels in the Achebe-Ngugi tradition, The Fishermen mixes the traditional English novel form with the oral storytelling tradition, dramatising the conflict between the traditional and the modern. It is rather depressing but poignant.

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Naked (1993)

1993 | Drama

8.7

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"Although Mike Leigh’s family dramas, such as High Hopes and Secrets & Lies, have had a more apparent influence on my work, Naked is my favorite film of Leigh’s. It’s in my top ten favorite films ever made. It’s an exhausting odyssey that never gets the characters (or the viewer) home again. “Tell me, love, are you aware of the effect you have on the average mammalian, Mancunian, XY-ly chromosome, slavering, lusty male member of the species?” Now, that’s dialogue!"

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