GEORGE NUUS - Die Kaapse skrywer, film- en teaterakteur, David Viviers, se splinternuwe roman, Mirage*, is volgende week op die winkelrakke. Ofskoon sy boekbekendstelling eers later vanjaar in George, Viviers se tuisdorp gaan plaasvind, het hy diep spore hier getrap.
"Viviers het baie noue bande met George-biblioteek," het Elmine Vorster van George-biblioteek gesê.
"Hy is nou 'n bekende akteur in Binnelanders, maar het hier groot geword."
Viviers het sowat 'n jaar gelede 'n hele reeks boeke van Shakespeare aan George-biblioteek geskenk wat tydens sy studiejare aan hom gegee is.
Viviers het sy meestersgraad in kreatiewe skryfwerk onder toesig van die internasionaal bekroonde Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer Damon Galgut voltooi.
Mirage is David Viviers se debuutroman.
Mirage synopsis
A century-old trunk has been dug up deep in the Karoo. 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 breakup, is intrigued by what the journal describes: a scarlet curtain billowing above the desert, concealing 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, a hundred years before their time.
Michael travels to the forgotten Karoo hotel where Elizabeth wrote her novel Mirage. Amid talk of omens in the starry skies, ancient prophecies and the end of the world, he begins to decipher the journal’s secrets as they intertwine with his own life.
And as time starts to unravel in the mirages of the Karoo, Michael can’t shake the feeling that he’s been to the hotel before … This well-paced metaphysical mystery includes fascinating detail on Karoo landscape and flora, astronomy and cosmology, and a feminist angle.
At its heart, Mirage is a story about loss and healing; and how we use narrative to cope with pain.
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