The Book of the Dead. Kgebetli Moele

Khutso grows up poor in Masakeng and eventually goes to university where he meets Pretty. The two fall in love and get married. But there is no happily ever after here. Pretty has an affair. She contracts HIV and commits suicide, leaving her husband infected with the disease. Devastated, Khutso cuts all ties with his old life and sets out on a quest for vengeance that quickly fills his little black book of revenge with names. The second novel by the award-winning novelist Kgebetli Moele.