by Michele Kahn · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425339967
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«Cacao» is the historical novel by Michèle Kahn, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in hardcover (495 pages, in Spanish).
In the French Basque Country of the eighteenth century, a Jewish family of master chocolatiers suffers an edict of Bayonne (1761) that forbids them from practicing their trade. David Álvarez and his granddaughter Luna, helped by the ingenious Pompon, investigate their past to prove that their ancestors brought cacao to Europe and to get the decision revoked.
Collection «Grijalbo novela histórica». Translation by Rosa Alapont. First edition in Spanish published in 2006.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the eighteenth century, the Jewish diaspora and the history of chocolate in Europe.
Michèle Kahn is a French writer who later lived in Strasbourg and currently in Paris. She first wrote books for the young, and mainly addressed the adult public from 1997. Her novels, strongly anchored in history and very documented, often inspired by the adventures of the Jewish people, draw readers around the world.
