The Fishermen
2015 · 304 pages
Four brothers fish a forbidden Nigerian river, and a madman tells the eldest he will die at a fisherman's hand. Obioma takes the family apart with the inevitability of Greek tragedy.
★ 5.0
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The Robbers
1781 · 472 pages
Karl Moor, disinherited by his brother's forged letter, takes a robber band into the Bohemian forests and learns that idealism under arms turns to butchery. Romantic literature has been rewriting him ever since.
★ 6.0
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
1976 · 240 pages
In our family, Maclean writes, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. Two brothers and their minister father on the Big Blackfoot, and a love that cannot save anyone.
★ 6.9
The Brothers Karamazov
1880 · 832 pages
Old Karamazov is murdered and each of his three sons had reason. Around the crime Dostoevsky stages the fiercest argument fiction has ever made about God and the suffering of children.
★ 9.7