Mirage
(By David Ralph Viviers)
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A century-old trunk has been dug up near the railway village of Sterfontein. Inside is the lost journal of Victorian author Elizabeth Tenant ― and what appear to be the remains of a child.
Michael, a university student recovering from a broken heart, is intrigued by what the journal describes: a scarlet curtain billowing above the desert, covering the entrance to another world. But things become even stranger when a line in the journal seems to be connected to Michael and his cosmologist mother, written a hundred years before their time.
Michael travels to the old Karoo hotel where Elizabeth wrote her novel Mirage. Amid talk of omens in the sky, ancient prophecies and the end of the world, he tries to decipher the journal’s secrets. As time starts to dissolve in the mirages of the Karoo, it becomes more and more difficult to know what is real and what is not.
And why can’t he shake the feeling that he’s been to the village before?
A fast-paced metaphysical mystery that includes fascinating detail on Karoo landscape and botany; cosmology and astronomy. At its heart, Mirage is a story about loss and healing; and how we use narrative to cope with pain.
*Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize (2024)*
*Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize (2024)*
*Longlisted for the SALA Award for Best Novel (2024)*”
