BOOK REVIEW

First published in 2016 and long listed for the International Dublin Literary Award, which is one of the world’s most valuable annual literary prizes, Nthikeng Mohlele’s

Pleasure is drawn against a canvas of wartime Europe and modern-day Cape Town. Thoughtful, eccentric and besieged by the erotic and the sensual, the protagonist Milton Mohlele sacrifices all for a glimpse into the secrets and deceptions of pleasure and how powerless those apparent insights are in the vast scale of life in its absurdity and glory.

Pleasure is contemporary local fiction at its best.