SHE'S TO BLAME, translated from Sesotho by J.M. Lenake

296pp., paperback, First English Language Edition, Cape Town, 2019

First published in Sesotho in 1960 as Mosali a Nkhola.

A novel set in Lesotho in 1945, about a man caught between modernity and tradition.

Bennett Makolo Khaketla (1913-2000) published two novels, three plays and a collection of poems. After spending time in South Africa he returned to Lesotho in 1953 to start the newspaper Mohlabani.