Tobacco and chocolate

of "stump labourers" from Aargau had embarked on an adventure with a faggot from the West Indian upper class and had a child. While the rest of the family endeavours to erase the memory of her mother's years with the "savages", the narrator sets out to save this story, which is also his own.

Tobacco and chocolate
takes us into the tropical jungle of a British crown colony in the fifties and sixties. As the narrator moves closer and closer to his Indian ancestors, who were shipped to the Caribbean as contract labourers, he uncovers not only a family tree, but also a piece of colonial history. This is juxtaposed with memories of growing up in his grandparents' "tobacco house" in Aargau and the rapprochement with a mother who always seemed unapproachable during her lifetime.