Samenvatting
In a small Côte d’Azur village with a hotel, a beach and fishermen, a blind boy and Manon, the daughter of a gruff baker, hang out on the beach daily with the village children, from the age when they were toddlers. And yet they live still in a world of their own. Timo, although deprived of eyesight, is gifted with insight. He can tell intricate stories that captivate children as well as adults. That’s how in the summer of 1957 they meet Sofie, a slowly dying girl of their age. He discovers what she lacks and shares with her his daily breakfast of fried “fruits de mer” he gets from the fishermen. Sofie recovers. Timo “sees” with his hands and one day Manon permits him to “see” her ripening body. So does Sofie. They taste love and promise each other to marry the tree of them. There is no proof this story did happen. But purity has it own ways to stand out in the Akasha Chronicles and to reach the “fantasy” of writers who are acquainted with this purity and long for it. Because longing is a strong magnet. I take part in this story, although just as a ghost writer. Joshua Stiller
It is a love story. About a boy, blind, but free as a bird. And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free. With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free. It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d’Azur, during the summer of 1957. As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well. Has it really happened? Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pick it up? Purity has her own ways to manifest. Like the story of Romeo and Juliet and many more. Pure, unconditional love is rare and seldom survives unharmed. This is the story of two weeks in the lives of three twelve year old.
Thuiswinkel Waarborg