Summary of Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains
“Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains” is a novel with three intertwined narratives, set primarily in Arizona (USA) and Partizánske (Slovakia). The first narrative follows Theobald Moon, an overweight thirty-something Brit who emigrates to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona to live in an isolated mobile home surrounded by cactuses and wild animals. The second narrative centres on Theobald’s daughter, Josephine, who assists him in his ice scream business while grappling with questions about her father’s past and his relationship with her mother. The third strand of the novel tells the love story of Eva, who works in a shoe factory in Slovakia, and Tibor, a Slovakian ice cream vendor. Their arrival in the Arizona desert dramatically alters the lives of Theobald and Josephine.
Reasons to read Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains
“Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains” by English author Susan Elderkin is a humorous and poignant novel that won the Betty Trask Award in 2000 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Setting: Partizánske (Slovakia) and Arizona (USA)
Original title: Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains
Year of publication: 2000
Nr of pages: 324
