Join book lovers in Lagos this Saturday as Yewande Omotoso reads from her novel Bom Boy.
The Book
Bom Boy was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize in South Africa as well as the M-Net Literary Awards 2012 and won the 2012 South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author. Bom Boy tells the tale of Leke, 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.
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The Writer
Yewande Omotoso was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria with her Barbadian mother, Nigerian father and two older brothers. The family moved to South Africa in 1992. Omotoso studied architecture at the University of Cape Town, worked as an architect for several years and went on to complete a Masters degree in Creative Writing. Bom Boy is Omotoso’s debut novel and was published in South Africa by Modjaji Books. She is currently working on her second novel. Yewande lives in Johannesburg.
The Event
Date: 30th March 2013
Venue: Patabah Bookstore, Adeniran Ogunsanya Shopping Mall Surulere, Lagos.
Time: 5-7pm
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Copies of Bom Boy published by Bookcraft limited will be on sale and Yewande will be available to sign. Come along with friend.
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