Bom Boy

Bom Boy
Authors
Omotoso, Yewande
Publisher
Modjaji Books
Tags
fic019000 , book
ISBN
9781920397357
Date
2011-10-24T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.50 MB
Lang
en
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Leke is a troubled young man living in the suburbs of Cape Town. He develops strange habits of stalking people, stealing small objects and going from doctor to doctor in search of companionship rather than cure. Through a series of letters written to him by his Nigerian father whom he has never met, Leke learns about a family curse; a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove. Bom Boy is a well-crafted, and complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallness and magnitude of a single life.