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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
Format: Bargain Price
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)
Sales Rank: 15220
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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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.
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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
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Forget all the food metaphors beckoning; I'd spend months trying to not sound cliche. But this book, especially in its similes, has language -- I'm not kidding about this -- that rivals Shakespeare's in creativity, and in its ability to evoke clear, luscious images. I read much of it out loud, letting the feel of the words in my mouth, their sounds in my ears, enhance the richness.
Thank you Ms. Harris, for the lessons, for the compassion, and especially for the language.
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I love the way she mixes the wonderful smells of chocolat and fresh food, which are gifts from God, with the nastiness of miserable people.
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Looking for an easy read, I picked up Chocolat at a nearby bookstore. I expected something simple and enjoyable, and that's exactly what I got; no more, no less. This book is by no means a literary classic; I cannot imagine readers many years from now picking it up with reverence, regarding it as the epitome of anything remarkable. Furthermore, I didn't experience any epiphanies or deep changes in my personal beliefs as a result of reading it. But honestly, that was exactly what I wanted. Joanne ... Read More
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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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