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Bom Boy
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Artikel-Nr:
9781946395108
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.02.2019
Seiten:
182
Autor:
Yewande Omotoso
Gewicht:
172 g
Format:
204x128x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Yewande Omotoso is an architect, with a masters in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. Her debut novel Bomboy (2011 Modjaji Books), won the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize and was shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature. She was a 2015 Miles Morland Scholar. Yewande's second novel The Woman Next Door (Chatto and Windus) was published in May 2016. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Aidoo-Snyder Prize, the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, and the UJ Literary Prize. It was also longlisted for the Baileys Women's Literature Prize. The Woman Next Door was also nominated for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the fiction category.
Wandering in Cape Town, Leke stalks people, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of a cure. But he isn't sure what ails him--loneliness, or the family curse.