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| Original Title: | Five Quarters of the Orange |
| ISBN: | 0060958022 (ISBN13: 9780060958022) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Framboise Dartigen, Paul Hourias, Cassis Dartigen, Tomas Leibniz, Mirabelle Dartigen, Reine-Claude Dartigen, Laure Dessanges, Luc Dessanges, Yannick |
| Setting: | Les Laveuses,1992(France) Les Laveuses,1936(France) |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2002) |
Joanne Harris
Paperback | Pages: 307 pages Rating: 3.85 | 31094 Users | 2371 Reviews
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The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet - a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story. When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen - the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Although Framboise hopes for a new beginning she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother. With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother's dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet as she studies the scrapbook - searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother's sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor - she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle's cryptic scribbles. Within the journal's tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old. Rich and dark. Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel of mothers and daughters of the past and the present, of resisting, and succumbing, and an extraordinary work by a masterful writer.
Details Appertaining To Books Five Quarters of the Orange
| Title | : | Five Quarters of the Orange |
| Author | : | Joanne Harris |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | June 4th 2002 by Harper Perennial (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. France |
Rating Appertaining To Books Five Quarters of the Orange
Ratings: 3.85 From 31094 Users | 2371 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Five Quarters of the Orange
I really, really enjoyed the Chocolat trilogy but was rather disappointed with this one. Like Chocolat, at the heart of this book is the relationship between a mother and her daughter with very much a foody theme running through it. Framboise and her family grew up in a small village on the banks of the Loire in France but left suddenly after events during WWII. Years later, Framboise, now widowed, returns to her old home, keeping her identify a secret for fear of reprisals for what, for most ofBlackberry Wine (1999) & Five Quarters of the Orange (2001) by Joanne Harris Finished Reading: August 2015 Rating: 2/5 & 3/5 I read Harris' Five Quarters of the Orange & Blackberry Wine back to back, thus the double review. They are very similar, actually; a little too much. Both feature lead female protagonists that have strong, proud, independent, walled-away personalities, unwilling to accept, let alone ask, others for any sort of assistance. In both, they are not the lead
Thank you Kathleen and Susanne.
Going into this book, I didn't realize how much of it was going to be flashbacks to WWII. It's a family drama where all of the main plot points take place during the war and center around the Nazis' invasion of France. I'm not a big fan of wartime historical fiction, and I honestly wouldn't have picked up this book if I knew that going in.That being said, Joanne Harris's writing was as great as it always is. She has a real talents for writing about food and I wish there was more of it in this
It is France during the Nazi Occupation and the three Dartigan children befriend a young German soldier who brings them chocolate and magazines. A seemingly harmless, secret relationship, except the youngest child, nine year old Framboise, has fallen perhaps too hard for the charming Tomas. He was very charming. And the children's mother might have known him as well, but it is now years later and Framboise has never had the courage to finally face up to what was going on that last year they
Whew, this is a wrenching read. It's excellent and 4.5 star, IMHO.The characters are not easily liked, very few are amiable, and the entire is both dramatically and emotionally tense. And that tension is for its entire length and continued within personality and character far beyond the ending. Because our narrator and others are never easy people. Beyond the war and small town France location coupled with the scrumptious cooking and foodie directions, the real core of the story is the tightly
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