Longlisted Nakhane Toure’s 'Piggy Boy’s Blues' to be taught at a college in America

One of the books longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2016 Nakhane Toure’s Piggy Boy’sBlues will be taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

In a statement announced by the publisher BlackBird Books and pubblished on Books Live South Africa, Piggy Boy’s Blues has been adopted for the spring 2017 course “The Contemporary African Novel”.

Touré, an award-winning musician debut novel has been described as reading fragments of a recurring dream, centres on the disastrous consequences of a man’s return to his Eastern Cape home town of Alice.

For those who missed it, see the Etisalat longlist below:

Julie Iromuanya (Nigerian) — Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press, USA),

Elnathan John (Nigeria) —  Born on a Tuesday (Cassava Republic, Nigeria),

Jowhor Ile (Nigeria) — And After Many Days  (Farafina an imprint of Kachifo Limited, Nigeria),

Mohale Mashigo  (South Africa) — The Yearning(PanMacmillan, South Africa),

Nakhane Toure (South Africa) — Piggy Boy’s Blues (Blackbird Books imprint of Jacana Media, SA),

Jen Thorpe (South Africa) — The Peculiars (Penguin Random House, USA),

Unathi Magubeni (South Africa) — Nwezelenga: The Star Child(Black Bird Books Imprint of Jacana Media, South Africa).

Andrew Miller (South Africa)— Dub Steps  (Jacana Media, South Africa),

Jacqui L’Ange (South Africa) — The Seed Thief (Umuzi Publishers, South Africa)

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