La Estirpe de Lilith

When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down to write the invitations to her eightieth birthday party she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have built; but she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed.

Publicada en 1933, Cacao participa de una de las grandes inquietudes siempre presentes, de una forma u otra, en las obras del popular escritor brasileño Jorge Amado. La novela relata la vida cotidiana de los trabajadores en la hacienda del coronel Mané Frajelo, el rey del cacao, y cómo el despotismo de los patronos acaba despertando la solidaridad en los trabajadores y el ansia en su protagonista, José Cordeiro, de una existencia más justa y mejor.

Charlotte thought she was fine. After a childhood spent traveling around the world with her eccentric artist mother, she is content to have a quiet life, make herbal remedies, and play video games. But when her mother dies in a bizarre sculpture accident, Charlotte's life is turned upside down. Before she even has time to grasp the reality of her mother's death, her supposedly dead father appears and they are forced to live together to satisfy the terms of her mother's will. Reluctantly living in Soho with a father she has never met before, Charlotte begins to change in unexpected ways, even...

Esta novela plantea la conflictiva situación de un grupo de ex compañeros de escuela que se reúne en Londres para rememorar su infancia. Tres mujeres, una actriz apasionada, una modelo frígida y una chica convencional reviven junto al agridulce Miles.