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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780141000183
ISBN: 014100018X
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: November 01, 2000
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release Date: November 07, 2000
Sales Rank: 11800
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Vianne Rocher and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk, arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes--"a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux"--in February, during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. It's Lent, the shop is opposite the church and open on Sundays, and Francis Reynaud, the austere parish priest, is livid.
One by one the locals succumb to Vianne's concoctions. Joanne Harris weaves their secrets and troubles, their loves and desires, into her third novel, with the lightest touch. There's sad, polite Guillame and his dying dog; thieving, beaten-up Joséphine Muscat; schoolchildren who declare it "hypercool" when Vianne says they can help eat the window display--a gingerbread house complete with witch. And there's Armande, still vigorous in her 80s, who can see Anouk's "imaginary" rabbit, Pantoufle, and recognizes Vianne for who she really is. However, certain villagers--including Armande's snobby daughter and Joséphine's violent husband--side with Reynaud. So when Vianne announces a Grand Festival of Chocolate commencing Easter Sunday, it's all-out war: war between church and chocolate, between good and evil, between love and dogma.
Reminiscent of Herman Hesse's short story "Augustus," Chocolat is an utterly delicious novel, coated in the gentlest of magic, which proves--indisputably and without preaching--that soft centers are best. --Lisa Gee, Amazon.co.uk
Book Description:
Greeted as "an amazement of riches ... few readers will be able to resist" by The New York Times, Chocolat is an enchanting novel about a small French town turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolate confectioner, Vianne Rocher, and her spirited young daughter.
Average Rating: 
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For about the first ten pages I didn't think I was going to like this book. Then something magical happened, and I was hooked. There's nothing extraordinary about the storyline, but the writing is spectacular. Read the book then watch the movie, and don't forget your chocolate!
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Quiet, magical, beautiful, enchanting. I have rarely read a book so touching as this one. The characters and settings are so real and tangible, that one can feel the cold nip of the bitter wind and (far more welcoming) the warm scents and allure of the beckoning chocolate shop...What more can I say that hasn't already been said here, and better? Pick up a copy today and lose yourself in Chocolat.
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I don't think that I have ever said that a movie was better than the book in my life, but I will have to say it now. I had high hopes for "Chocolat", thinking that it would have all of the charm, sweetness, seduction and delight of the movie (and would probably be even better). Instead I found the characters to be very 1 dimensional, the ending unsatisfactory, and I thought that the narrative of the preist was very disruptive to the flow of the story. Over all I was not impressed. I will admit, the ... Read More
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Exquisite writing and wonderful characters made this
book by Joanne Harris her best. I've read other novels
by Harris ("Five Quarter of the Orange" was good, and
I actually did not care for "Holy Fools") but did not
read this one since I saw the movie. Of course, I
should have known it was even better than the movie,
as the books usually are superior.
I finally got around to reading "Chocolat" because I
heard she had a sequel coming out. "Chocolat" ... Read More
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I realize this book is a fairy tale and the standards have to be a little different. I am obviously not the audience that this book was intended for and the audience that was captivated by it. I did not believe the plot or the setting. If there had been a little more magic, I might have bought it. It seemed to me to be a collection of cliches from other stories. As the author had actually lived in France, I hoped for a little more realism. I've read about the anti-Catholic bias in film and books and ... Read More
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