Maria receives a very special gift for her twelfth birthday: A small Black boy, a slave. The highly acclaimed Dutch writer Dolf Verroen (three-time winner of the highest award in Dutch children's and young adult literature) takes the reader to the times of slavery in one of the former Dutch colonies in the Pacific.

"All the people in this story have been invented, and yet, everything truly happened," writes the author in the book's epilogue.

• Author: Dolf Verroen
• Illustrator: Eduardo Rodrigo Martínez
• Language ‏ : ‎ Spanish
• Recommended age: 10 years and up.