THE SCENT OF BLISS

127pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2008) 2019

A novella about a lecturer in creative writing who resigns after being diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder. Unemployed, he goes in search of his missing lover.

"Delightful reading. This novella establishes Mohlele as a vibrant voice of our times." Keorapetse Kgositile, author of This Way I Salute You

Nthikeng Mohlele grew up in Limpopo Province and Tembisa Township. He is the author of the novels Small Things, Rusty Bell, Michael K, Illumination and Pleasure, which won the 2016 University of Johannesburg Main Prize for South African Writing in English and the 2017 K. Sello Duiker Memorial Prize.