Winner of Literature Prize of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy 2015 (Germany)
Winner of Anna Seghers Prize 2015 (Germany)
Winner of Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2020 (UK)
Long-listed for International Booker Prize 2020 (UK)
Long-listed for Dublin Literary Award 2021 (Ireland)

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation's War and Peace.

Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century.

At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers, thanks to a recipe for hot chocolate that bewitches its drinkers. But this chocolate carries a bitter - some say cursed - aftertaste ...

Tumbling through the years, across vast expanses of longing and loss, witness generation after generation of this remarkable family as they struggle and thrive, divide and reunite, and live and die in the red century.