George Amado Cocoa Book

Author: Georgie Amadou Translator: Marie Touq Number of pages: 176 pages Sergibano is forced to leave his land after his father's death and become a worker on a cocoa farm. He is surprised there by the slavery that the farm workers are subjected to. Sergibano finds a moment of relief when Maria, the owner's daughter, takes him as her personal slave. But that does not prevent him from the fate of his comrades of hunger and poverty in a society where women are forced to sell their bodies to survive. Nor does it prevent his feeling of duty to defend the farmers and claim their rights.