Angel Tungaraza prepare sweets for profession. But Angel is not a confectioner any, because the kitchen where knead, bake, decorate his acclaimed masterpieces is not the most scintillating way to New York, or on the back of an elegant tea room in London, but the heart of Africa, Rwanda in a just released by the horrors of civil war, still incredulous that has been left behind, the nightmare wakes up with a great desire to celebrate. For this
Angel cakes are more than just desserts, for he who knocks on the door of Mrs. Tungaraza has always behind it a history of pain that Angel listens patiently dissolving the bitterness that his customers bring in with steaming cups of the sweet with milk and cardamom. There is a cold military tells of a childhood as a child soldier, abducted and forced his family to a life that has ripped the soul out of the chest and right. There is the nurse who miraculously survived the genocide, has reconstructed with fortitude a broken life, devoting his time to helping others to rebuild theirs. There is a young HIV-positive mother who, after having worked so much he bought an oven with which he hopes to finally be able to keep his daughters as it should be, learning to bake cakes from Angel. There is the woman who saw her husband died and his son, but was able to revive them by taking the reins of the restaurant, once off the ashes of war. And there are Wazungu , whites transplanted in black along with all their eccentricities by Wazungu , can even order a cake to celebrate a divorce.
Ed Angel, between the discomfort of menopause and its own scars that mark the soul and brought her to take care of the five orphaned grandchildren, knead in putting all his heart, entering on tiptoe in the lives of its customers and trying, in its small way, to get out of leaving behind something good, and in turn bringing along, from each, an important life lesson. A novel sensitive
who can speak of war, genocide, AIDS, but also of hope, of life, integration and ransom. And that reminds us that when the story progresses, are the lives of ordinary people to be overwhelmed and crushed by his gear.
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