The Discovery of Chocolate

Informationen zum Autor James Runcie is an award – winning film-maker and writer. He is unashamedly forty-one and lives in St. Albans with his wife and two daughters. ‘The Discovery of Chocolate’ is his first novel, written because he finds the prospect of everlasting life far more frightening than death, and because, according to Vogue Magazine, “It’s official. People who eat chocolate live longer than those who do not.” Klappentext A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate! The Discovery of Chocolate is a fabulous tale, as rich and exotic as the gorgeous creation that Diego de Godoy first discovers when he arrives in Mexico with Cortes and his conquistadors. Diego is seeking his fortune in the New World. What he finds is love, and chocolate, and an elixir of life. Separated from his lover, he must wander the world, and the centuries, in search of the fulfilment that he first knew in Mexico. In a series of dramatic episodes that are evocative, witty and thought-provoking, from revolutionary Paris to Freud's Vienna, Fry's Bristol and Hershey's Pittsburgh, Diego and his ever-faithful greyhound, Pedro, seek the perfection of chocolate and the meaning of life.A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate!

Product details

• Authors: James Runcie
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2002
• EAN: 9780007107834
• ISBN: 978-0-00-710783-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Harper Collins Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Mexico, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Humorous / General, France, Historical adventure, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Historical adventure fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Classic fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, Cocoa;History;Love;Revolution;Childhood;Memory;Desire;Life