After young Silver's mother is literally blown off the face of the earth, the girl ends up with the blind and wise lighthouse keeper Pugh, who teaches her that keeping the light from going out means learning to tell stories. And they take the girl into the depths of the Gothic nightmare of the life of the priest of Babylon of Darkness, where Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Darwin meet... One of the most controversial English prose writers, Janet Winterson is known to Russian readers for her books “The Secret History of the Flesh”, “The Passion” and “A Play for Three Voices and pimps." Her magical novel “The Economy of Light” (2004) is a hymn to the chaos of human existence and the power of love that transcends centuries - for the first time in Russian.