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“Tobacco and Chocolate” (title translated by AI)
Martin R. Dean (born 1955)
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After his mother's death, the narrator finds an album in a drawer with photographs of his early childhood on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. As a young woman, the daughter of cigar workers from Aargau had thrown herself into an adventure with a ne'er-do-well from the West Indian upper class and had a child. While the rest of the family tries to erase the memory of her years among the savages, the narrator sets out to rescue this story, which is also his own. It leads into the jungle of a British crown colony in the 1950s and 1960s and back to his Indian ancestors, shipped to the Caribbean as indentured labourers.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 220 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Trinidad & Tobago, Switzerland, 1950s–1960s
- First published
- 2024 by Atlantis Verlag
- Author's age
- 69 when first published
- ISBN
9783715250397 (original)