Vuurtorenwachten
By: Jeanette Winterson ; vert. [uit het Engels] door Maarten Polman
Contributors: Polman, Maarten
Publisher: Contact
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Amsterdam [etc.]
Language: dut
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9789025426415
Description: Centres around the orphaned heroine Silver, taken in by lighthousekeeper Pew, whose stories of love and loss, passion and longing, are deftly woven into the narrative. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, that of Babel Dark, a 19th-century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow. Caught in her own particular darknesses, she embarks on an Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories of love and loss, of passion and longing, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times, and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal.

Na de verdwijning van haar moeder komt een Schots meisje van tien in de leer bij een blinde vuurtorenwachter die het tweede gezicht heeft en haar veel verhalen vertelt die haar leven bepalen.