Three women, three centuries and the same porcelain chocolate pot: Sara, the scion of a dynasty of chocolatiers from Barcelona, who prides herself on maintaining the family tradition; Aurora, the daughter of a nineteenth-century maidservant, for whom chocolate is a forbidden luxury; Mariana, the wife of a famous seventeenth-century chocolate manufacturer, an official purveyor to the French court and the inventor of a revolutionary chocolate mill.
In Desire for Chocolate, Care Santos takes us on a spellbinding journey, masterfully juxtaposing the destinies of her protagonists, chronicling the history of our favourite confection and exploring Europe's changing social norms. Luscious and addictive, this novel will delight the reader's senses from start to finish.

Desire for Chocolate

Literature & Fiction

Santos, Care

Literary

Alma Books

Three women, three centuries and the same bone-china chocolate pot: Sara, the scion of a dynasty of chocolatiers from Barcelona, who prides herself on maintaining the family tradition; Aurora, the daughter of a nineteenth-century maidservant, for whom chocolate is a forbidden luxury; Mariana, the wife of the most famous seventeenth-century chocolate manufacturer, an official purveyor to the French court and the inventor of a revolutionary chocolate mill.
 Through her passion for chocolate, Care Santos takes us on a spellbinding journey through its evolution, from the cocoa bean's first arrival in Europe to the many sophisticated products derived from it today, and shows us how we can understand the great shifts in history through the study of small things. Luscious and addictive, this novel will delight the reader's senses from start to finish.

,,Sila tej ksiazki nie lezy w pomysle, ale w sposobie, w jaki zmienia nasze postrzeganie rzeczy i nas samych. Swietna powiesc." 
La Vanguardia 
,,Care Santos po mistrzowsku laczy epoki, od ostatnich lat XIX wieku do czasów wspólczesnych, tworzac miedzy nimi doskonala harmonie. Wiarygodnie kresli postacie i z latwoscia przenosi czytelnika w przeszlosc. Pisze jezykiem eleganckim i wywazonym, pozbawionym zbednych ozdobników. Lektura godna polecenia". 
Revista Leer 
,,Care Santos otwiera swoje Zamkniete pokoje po mistrzowsku, kreujac intryge jednoczesnie nie popadajac banal". 
El Cultural (El Mundo) 
Kazda rodzina skrywa jakas tajemnice. 
Jest rok 2010. Violeta Lax, historyk sztuki z Art Institute w Chicago badajaca twórczosc wybitnego hiszpanskiego malarza Amadea Laxa (prywatnie jej dziadka), przyjezdza do Barcelony. 
Po kilku dekadach administracyjnych przepychanek pelnomocnikowi spadkobierców artysty udaje sie doprowadzic do otwarcia w ich dawnej rodzinnej rezydencji monograficznego muzeum Amadea Laxa, zgodnie z jego ostatnia wola. 
Jednak podczas prac remontowych w palacyku zostaja odkryte zwloki kobiety. 
Kim byla denatka? Dlaczego ktos zatuszowal jej smierc? I czy w tej sytuacji dojdzie do otwarcia muzeum? Odkrywajac nowe fakty, Violeta zacznie zupelnie inaczej patrzec na historie swojej rodziny...

Zamkniete pokoje (Polish Edition)

Sonia Draga

El aire que respiras

Contemporary

Editorial Planeta

Wiktor hipnotiza a las fieras: Arcanus 2 (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

Destino Infantil & Juvenil

Ekki domina las tinieblas: Arcanus 3 (Spanish Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Habitaciones cerradas

Genre Fiction

Deseo de chocolate (Spanish Edition)

Booket

El campamento de los misterios (2 novelas en 1) (Serie Milena Pato 6)

Children's Books

Cruz, Dani

Action & Adventure

Montena

Derrotado definitivamente su peor enemigo de otros tiempos, Eblus se aburre. Ni siquiera sus amigos, los tres vampiros de Oriente, logran desentumecerlo. Ya no siente la misma pasion que antes por los viajes, el arte y los libros antiguos. Incluso se ha cansado de cobrarse almas humanas. Ahora que lo tiene todo, desea lo unico que no puede poseer: a Natalia.  ENGLISH DESCRIPTION  Finally having defeated his worst enemy, Eblus gets bored. Not even his friends, the three East vampires, can get him out of his slump. He no longer feels the same passion as before for travel, art or antique books. He's even tired of collecting human souls. Now that he has it all, he wants what he cannot have: Natalia.

Sapere Aude / Sapere Audet (Trilogía de Eblus) (Spanish Edition)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

B de Blok

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