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02166aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 F39242643D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 230328s2023 sa b 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1485904978 020 $a 9781485904977 035 $a (OCoLC)1374119734 040 $a Z@L $b eng $e rda $c Z@L $d EEM $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.4.V58 $b M57 2023 100 1 $a Viviers, David Ralph, $e author. 245 10 $a Mirage : $b [a novel] / $c David Ralph Viviers. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa, $c 2023. 300 $a 229 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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?"--Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 650 0 $a South African fiction $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Paranormal fiction. 650 0 $a South African fiction (English) 650 7 $a South African fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127180 651 0 $a Karoo (South Africa) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst0142378 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012514.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F39242643D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search