Ex-Durban novelist, Marguerite Poland, will launch her latest novel, The Keeper, at Adams Books Musgrave Centre. Written in the haunting prose for which Poland is renowned, The Keeper is the story of two generations of lighthouse keepers – men obsessed by their duty to the light – and the wives who accompany them into a life of frightening isolation. The only other community on the desolate island is the guano workers; confined with the lighthouse keepers, yet rigidly separated.
The shimmering tensions and injustices endured for so long by the guano workers erupt into a single act of violence, at the same time as lighthouse keeper Hannes Harker’s wife Aletta’s past secrets erupt into the present. Marguerite Poland was a featured author at the recent KZN Midlands Literary Festival. Join us on Thursday 11 Sept at 18.00 for a rare public appearance by one of South Africa’s most treasured writers.
