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Bomboy

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'I hope, sincerely, that this golden debut fills every barren space on the continent from the Karoo to the Sahara with the chlorophyll of hope…' 

– Tade Ipadeola, author, poet, winner Delphic Laurel in Poetry, (2009)

210 pages

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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 has unsuccessfully tried to remove. Bomboy is a well crafted and complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallest and magnitude of a single life.