{"product_id":"9781787706699-the-fishermans-dream","title":"The Fisherman’s Dream","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA sweeping novel tracing the fate of a family divided by migration, memory, and the violent reshaping of their homeland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sweeping novel tracing the fate of a family divided by migration, memory, and the violent reshaping of their homeland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZacharias is a fisherman in a coastal village in southern Cameroon. His community—shaped for generations by the river’s rhythms and the meeting of forest and ocean—is upended by the arrival of logging companies, industrial trawlers, and predatory economic interests that exploit both land and people. Violence and irreversible change tear apart Zacharias’s family. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecades later, his grandson Zack has fled Douala for Paris’s 18th arrondissement. Isolated and adrift, Zack is haunted by a grandfather he never knew and a country whose wounds he carries in his body. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping and emotionally resonant, \u003cem\u003eThe Fisherman’s Dream\u003c\/em\u003e braids together the destinies of grandfather and grandson, each carrying the weight of a world transformed by globalization, displacement, and the delicate inheritance of love. A work of rare lyricism and political force exploring the rupture of traditional worlds, and a moving multi-generational family story. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57731670081910,"sku":"9781787706699","price":11.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41095127.jpg?v=1777613185","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781787706699-the-fishermans-dream","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}