Rusty Bell

Nthikeng Mohlele is one of the most promising young author in South Africa literature has Nthikeng Mohlele is one of the most promising young authors South African literature has to offer;An intuitive and sensitive writer, his work is thought provoking and philosophical;Over the years his work has received much praise from literacy critics, culminating to his last novel Pleasure winning the 2016 University of Johannesburg Main Prize for South African Writing in English as well as the 2017 K. Sello Duiker Memorial Prize at the South African Literary Awards;Jacana Media is proud to republish Mohlele’s back list title: Rusty Bell;This book introduces readers to his earlier work and give those familiar with his work a chance to complete their Mohlele collection

I wrestled with life and lost."" So begins the story of Michael, a lawyer known to his colleagues and associates as Sir Marvin, who picks his way - sometimes delicately, but often in his own blundering way - through the intricacies that make up a life: love and anger, humility and ambition, trust and distrust, selfishness and selflessness.“I wrestled with life and lost.”

So begins the story of Michael, a corporate lawyer known to his colleagues and associates as Sir Marvin, who picks his way – sometimes delicately, but more often in his own blundering way – through the unfathomable intricacies that make up a life: love and anger, humility and ambition, trust and distrust, selfishness and selflessness. A flawed individual with an acute understanding of the roads that must be navigated to achieve even the slightest insight into the human condition. In this study in introspection, embroidered with lyrical prose and astonishing intuition, the hero, meditative and melancholic, is at once both tragic and comic.