{"product_id":"father-cabraals-recipe-for-love-cake-a-novel-9780143476894","title":"Father Cabraal's Recipe For Love Cake: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH India Local Print\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Vintage\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFather Cabraal’s Recipe for Love Cake \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores the complex legacies of colonial exploitation and slavery in a tropical island in the Indian Ocean (a loosely fictionalised Sri Lanka). Two compelling stories run in parallel:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 21st century, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKatharina Silvaria, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eformerly a tv news journalist and war reporter based in London, now lives on the island, in an ancient house she has recently inherited. Damaged by her experiences as a war reporter and seeking a quiet life, Katharina earns a living by baking and exporting cakes made to an old recipe she found in the house. Amid one of the periodic rebellions against a repressive and unjust government, wounded fugitive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRajiv Almeida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes refuge in Katharina's house, and she reluctantly agrees to shelter him from the police.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late 17th century, significant areas of the island are controlled by a powerful European trading enterprise known only as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Company\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSantiago De Melo, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eone of the first Europeans to reside in the island Fort, builds an imposing house for himself and, defying convention, chooses as his bride a local woman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMaria\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, who has good reason to hate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Company\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Unusually, Maria has inherited from her lover - and now runs - one of the best pepper farms in the area. But the casually brutal deputy governor of the island is determined to seize control of its lucrative pepper trade, and tragedy follows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH India Local Print","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47273963552919,"sku":"9780143476894","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143476894.webp?v=1773380518","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/father-cabraals-recipe-for-love-cake-a-novel-9780143476894","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}