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008 140929s2014 sa 000 1 eng c
020 $a9780143539032
020 $a0143539035
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn891566872
035 $a(OCoLC)891566872
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050 4 $aPR9369.3.P65$bK44 2014
082 04 $a823.92$223
100 1 $aPoland, Marguerite.
245 14 $aThe keeper /$cMarguerite Poland.
264 1 $aJohannesburg :$bPenguin Books,$c2014.
300 $a182 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Poland's latest novel is set on a small guano island on the south-eastern coast of South Africa in 1957, inhabited only by lighthouse keepers, guano workers and gangs of convicts who harvest the island's 'white gold'. The Keeper tells the story of Hannes Harker, the island's senior lighthouse keeper and his young wife, Aletta, destined for one of the loneliest and most confined postings in the service. Here they are forced to challenge and confront the three 'commandments' implicit in the lives of those who serve the island :ever leave the light, never fall and never cross the line. For Hannes, a keeper's son himself, the posting to the island initiates a pilgrimage to concealed childhood memories. His fascination with the 'light' is intimately bound to his distant, autocratic father, the defection of his brother and the secrecy surrounding the tragic death of his mother. But for the wildly spirited and guilt-haunted Aletta, also born into the lighthouse tradition, the island brings frightening isolation before it does enlightenment. Thrust into a struggle against the desolating hold of the light, both Hannes and Aletta need to transcend the rigid requirements of an existence that denies the grace of compassion and the value of community." -- Publisher: http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=70177
650 0 $aLighthouse keepers$vFiction.
650 0 $aLighthouse keepers' spouses$vFiction.
650 0 $aIslands$zSouth Africa$vFiction.
650 0 $aSouth African fiction (English)$y21st century.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR9369.3.P65$iK44 2014g