Ná sy pa se dood ervaar Gilbert du Toit eienaardige visioene: kontoerlyne van lig en vlietende skole visse. Hierdie gestaltes is boodskappers, meen hy, en besluit om die blinklywe te volg, oor die wye Karoovlaktes, Kaap toe.

Gilbert se pad kruis met dié van die Howlers, ’n trio voormalige tronkvoëls wat met trompet, viool en kitaar deur die platteland toer. Hy kom kleindorpse kroeë teë, en dinosourusparke, en vergesigte wat hy hom tot nou toe skaars kon verbeel. Maar al reis hy hoe ver, die storms van sy verlede woed voort. Kuilsrivier bied ’n tydelike hawe, selfs liefde, maar vir Gilbert is hier geen ontvlugting van ’n dringende en dreigende vraag nie: Is die visse wat hom aandryf deel van groter magte wat sy lot bepaal, of skort daar iets met sy kop?

Tom Dreyer se Dorado is ’n magiese roman, so tergend en onpeilbaar soos die sterrehemel van die Karoo.

Fisika, die metafisiese, en selfs wetenskapfiksie word verweef in Nou in infrarooi. Soos die titel suggereer, gaan dit hier oor dit wat sigbaar is versus dit wat nié deur blote sig waarneembaar is nie.

Bestaande plekke – sommige naby en ander ver – word taktiel en ewokatief in reisgedigte uitgebeeld. Hiermee saam hang die verkenning van die onsigbare: van identiteit, ’n soeke na waar jy hoort, weemoed en liefde.

’n Debuutbundel wat bekroonde skrywer Tom Dreyer onomwonde as digter vestig.

Om hierdie skryfsels te lees is soos die oomblik wanneer jy ’n 3D-bril opsit of ’n towersampioen eet: Alles lyk opeens anders, die wêreld is op sy kop gedraai, oral knetter moontlikhede.

Dreyer het die vermoë om op hierdie manier te sien en om die leser só te laat sien.

Dis ’n wonderbaarlike mengelmoes van alledaagse sowel as fantasmagoriese objekte soos ’n vingerhoed, ’n verdwaalde los skroefie, ’n geel badeendjie op die vloer van ’n afdelingwinkel, die bloop, Napoleon en sy jaggeselskap wat op die vlug slaan voor ’n spul mak hase, die klankeffekte in Star Wars, ’n intakte beesoog in die pad, meerminne, ’n mimeerkunstenaar, Noorderligte, monsters, vampiere, salmanders en ander.

Die skrywer, wat ook digter is, mors nie met woorde nie en sy gedagtes is elegant.

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In the wake of his father's death, Gilbert du Toit begins to see rays of light and schools of fish streaking through the air. He believes that these visions are sending him a message, and sets off to follow his peculiar guides across the vastness of the Great Karoo. A journey that begins with a sense of purpose deteriorates into a manic and unpredictable expedition. When Gilbert's path crosses that of the Howlers, a trio of e-convicts touring the country with violin, trumpet and guitar, he is steered to dinosaur parks and backroad bars in the South African hinterland. Yet, as his travels unfold, it becomes clear that his past cannot be outpaced easily. A love affair in Kuils River offers respite, but in the end Gilber must confront the question: what is the message in the signs he sees all around him? In glimmering prose infused with humour and pathos, Tom Dreyer's The Long Wave is a tale of transformation, friendship and the mystery at the heart of ordinary life.

Based on a real expedition by two American naturalists in the early 1900s, this novel starts out as a gung-ho African adventure story and becomes a stark portrait of misguided plans and colonial corruption. Willis Reed, a zoologist, and Guy Nichols, an entomologist, are commissioned by the Antwerp Zoo to bring back the first live specimen of an okapi, a shy, forest-dwelling creature that had taken on an almost mythical status after first being described by Sir Harry Johnston in 1902. Setting off into the jungles of central Africa, the men are confident about their mission to further scientific knowledge, but their idealism is eroded by encounters with Belgian colonial officials, fanatical rubber farmers, local tribes, and their own isolation.