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Jazz, love and betrayal – Watch the book trailer for Nthikeng Mohlele’s latest novel, Illumination
More about the book!
Pan Macmillan has revealed the book trailer for Nthikeng Mohlele’s new novel, Illumination!
The video’s jazz soundtrack is perfect to get you in the right frame of mind to dive into the book.
About the book
Bantubonke is an accomplished and revered jazz trumpeter, composer and band leader in decline – an absent present and inadequate spouse. He lives for art at the expense of all else, an imbalance that derails his life and propels him to the brink of madness and despair.
A story of direct and implied betrayals, Illumination is an unrelenting study of possession and loss, of the beauty and uncertainty of love, of the dangers and intrusions of fame.
Tsitsi Dangarembga said of the book: ‘Illumination is a glorious celebration of the unfathomable nature of friendship and a deft appraisal of a complex individual’s and South Africa’s most pressing ills.’
Illumination will be launched at Exclusive Books Sandton City on Wednesday, 27 February 2019.
In an interview with Pan Macmillan, Mohlele explains that while Illumination is his sixth published novel, it was in fact the fifth novel he wrote:
‘Illumination was thought about for eight years or so – took just over three years to write and complete, and a further year or so to refine,’ Mohlele says. ‘It was, in fact, written before Michael K.’
Without further ado, watch the book trailer:
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