The personal and the political entwine in Love, where an undecided atheist, four times married, four times widowed and twice arrested and a dystopian future Johannesburg ruled by a fascist government, collide. Love plumbs the murkiest depths of the human soul to ask whether salvation lies at the altar of the divine, in overcoming the weaknesses of our lesser selves, or in our brief moments of romantic ecstasy. This new speculative novel is Nthikeng Mohlele’s most exploratory and conceptually rich work yet.