The Scent Of Bliss by Nthikeng Mohlele

ISBN: 9780795702761 / 0795702760 - The Scent Of Bliss by Nthikeng Mohlele. Published by Kwela, 2008. Softcover. Used, Excellent condition. 127 pp.

The Scent of Bliss hints at a childhood memoir, as much as it is a love tale that explores human anguish and survival, of absurdities that define the human condition. Manic depressive narrator Q is orphaned at a tender age of thirteen - grows to teach literature, and in the process courts an older woman. He is plunged into a series of unfulfilling and failed life choices, as he tries to find meaning to a life that seems destined for dead ends.

Set in imaginary Lumumbaville, this novel could very well be post-apartheid South Africa; an ambitious portrait that fuses death and history, social justice with the dogma of sexual and religious morality, premature loss of innocence, as well as the effects of State power on the lives of individuals.

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