Dorado

When his father dies, Gilbert du Toit starts seeing glowing contours and darting shoals of fish. Taking them for messengers, he heads over the Karoo towards Cape Town with the Howlers, three ex-convicts who play brass, strings and guitar on tour, past country pubs and parks full of dinosaurs, his past still raging in him. Kuils River brings brief refuge and even love, but no answer: are the fish part of some larger design, or is his mind failing?

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

240 pages in the original

Set in

South Africa

First published

2016 by Penguin Books

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9781415208960 (original)