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BOM BOY
Winner of the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize
Shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature
Shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize
Abandoned by his birth mother, losing his adoptive mother to cancer, and failing to connect with his distant adoptive father, Leke--a troubled young man living in Cape Town--has developed some odd and possibly destructive habits: he stalks strangers, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of friendship. Through a series of letters written to him from prison by his Nigerian father, a man he has never met, Leke learns about the family curse--a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove. Leke's search to break the curse leads him to strange places.
Yewande Omotoso is an architect with a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. The Woman Next Door (Chatto and Windus, 2016), Omotoso's second novel, was published to critical acclaim, and was a 2018 finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and a nominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction. She lives in Johannesburg.
Shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature
Shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize
Abandoned by his birth mother, losing his adoptive mother to cancer, and failing to connect with his distant adoptive father, Leke--a troubled young man living in Cape Town--has developed some odd and possibly destructive habits: he stalks strangers, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of friendship. Through a series of letters written to him from prison by his Nigerian father, a man he has never met, Leke learns about the family curse--a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove. Leke's search to break the curse leads him to strange places.
Yewande Omotoso is an architect with a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. The Woman Next Door (Chatto and Windus, 2016), Omotoso's second novel, was published to critical acclaim, and was a 2018 finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and a nominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction. She lives in Johannesburg.
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Published 2011-09-01 by Catalyst Press |