New book alert! Nthikeng Mohlele’s new novel Revolutionaries’ House – an invitation to be hopeful again
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Nthikeng Mohlele’s new novel Revolutionaries’ House is out soon from Jacana Media!

‘We are again at the crossroads: of history and morality, of conscience. But our people don’t trust us anymore, because for three decades we abused them, took them for granted. What now?’

Mister Wilson is a substantial man, an honest man, a ‘good’ politician. Or this is how he likes to see himself. But as his marriage falls apart and his party’s hypocrisies and failings become impossible to ignore, this easy image starts to crack, and he goes from being a potential president to a man washing dishes and sleeping under bridges.

With lucid prose and startingly beautiful imagery, Nthikeng Molehle reaches into the consciousness of a man fallen from grace, and the disillusionment, fractured morals and unravelling personal life which have led to this spiritual exile is revealed. Revolutionaries’ House is a haunting novel of love and attachment, and their many betrayals.

Declarative and insightful, Revolutionaries’ House comes in a time where cynicism is rife and self-serving actions abound. It is an invitation to be hopeful again.

About the author

Novelist, short story writer, playwright, Nthikeng Mohlele is author of eight novels and two short-story collections. His novels include: The Scent of Bliss (2008), Small Things (2013), Rusty Bell (2014), Pleasure (2016), Michael K (2018), Illumination (2019), Breasts, etc. (2023) and two short-story collections, The Discovery of Love (2021) and A Little Light (2023). Pleasure is the 2017 winner of the University of Johannesburg Main Prize for South African Writing in English, the K Sello Duiker Memorial Prize and, was also long listed for the Dublin International Prize. The Discovery of Love won the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Award 2022 for Best Fiction: Short Stories. Revolutionaries’ House (2024) is Mohlele’s eighth novel. He writes journalism and literary reviews.