Pleasure: A Novel - Softcover

Mohlele, Nthikeng

 
9781770104853: Pleasure: A Novel

Synopsis

The notion of pleasure in all its guises is one of the oldest and most enduring grand themes of literature, presented here through the eyes and thoughts of writer and dreamer Milton Mohlele. Thoughtful, eccentric and besieged by the erotic and the sensual, the profane and the redemptive, Milton thinks and writes on pleasure as it is both experienced and imagined. Drawn against the canvas of wartime Europe and modern-day Cape Town, South Africa, Milton sacrifices all for glimpses into the secrets and deceptions of pleasure - and how powerless those apparent insights are in the vast scale of life in its glory and absurdity.

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About the Author

Nthikeng Mohlele was partly raised in Limpopo and Tembisa Township, and attended the University of the Witwatertsrand, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Art, Publishing Studies and African Literature. He is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: The Scent of Bliss (2008), Small Things (2013), Rusty Bell (2014), Pleasure (2016) and Michael K (2018). Pleasure won the 2016 University of Johannesburg Main Prize for South African Writing in English as well as the 2017 K. Sello Duiker Memorial Prize at the South African Literary Awards. Illumination is Mohlele’s sixth novel.

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ISBN 10:  1597140236 ISBN 13:  9781597140232
Publisher: Heyday Books, 2006
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