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Chocolat [Paperback]

Joanne Harris (Author)
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Publication Date: 4 Mar 1999

When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial.

As passions flare and the conflict escalates, the whole community takes sides. Can the solemnity of the Church compare with the sinful pleasure of a chocolate truffle?

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Black Swan; paperback / softback edition (4 Mar 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0552998486
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552998482
  • Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (213 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Chocolat begins with Vianne Rocher and her six-year-old daughter Anouk arriving in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes--"a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bordeaux"--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, it's open on Sundays and Francis Reynaud, the austere parish priest, is livid.

One by one the locals succumb to Vianne's concoctions. Harris weaves their secrets and troubles, their loves and desires, into this, her third novel, with the lightest touch. 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 Armande, still vigorous in her eighties, who can see Anouk's "imaginary" rabbit Pantoufle, and recognises 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 magics, which proves--indisputably and without preaching--that soft centres are best. --Lisa Gee --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Mouthwatering ... a feelgood book of the first order ... your senses are left reeling. Read it (Observer )

Is this the best book ever written? Truly excellent ... Harris's achievement is not only in her story, in her insight and humour and the wonderful picture of small-town life in rural France, but also in her writing (Literary Review )

Sensuous and thought-provoking ... subtle and brilliant (Daily Telegraph )

A celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerance (Observer )

An addictive read ... haunting, obsessive and just a little nutty, like a freshly made praline (Elisabeth Luard, Author Of "Family Life" )
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A delicious, indulgent read 7 Jan 2007
By J.E.T
Format:Paperback
In this novel Harris captures a certain magic that compels you to read on and discover the secrets within. Set in a small French village, Chocolat tells the tale of Vianne Rocher- a pagan, single mother who sets up a chocolate shop in a mainly god-fearing town on the eve of the Christian celebration of Lent. As the novel unfolds and the townsfolk one-by-one give in to the allure of Vianne's famous chocolates and drinks we hear their life stories and really get a clear image of their character and hidden selves. Showing the struggle between religion and ingulging your desires this is a truly captivating read.

The characters all seem to have a true-to-life element about them and are completely believable. The only dissapointing part of this book for me was the end which was a little too abrupt for my liking. It is well worth a read, but save it for when you have a large space of time free as it will completely enthrall you in all it's twists and turns.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Chocolat - The meaning of life? 8 Mar 2006
By Fi Fi
Format:Paperback
I didn't expect much from this book, my mother told me to read it as she loved it and so i thought i would give it a go - and how glad i am that I did! This book has so much hidden depth which is not apparently obvious from the title. I have never seen paganism and catholicism brought together so cleverly. A beautiful look at how religions work and are not so different. I found the book to be very touching and insightfull. The characters are a very well thought up blend of people and portrays a good spectrum of people from most walks of life, all cleverly tied together in a small village. Harris brought everyone of them to life beautifuly and each had a different yet stricking character and they all somehow seem very familiar and I found i could relate most of them to people I have encountered. All in all this is a wonderful feel good book I would recomend it to everyone as a clever look at religion and sociology! (I will appologise hear for my spelling which im sure is atrocious)!
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and a great movie 26 Aug 2001
By "danjenk"
Format:Paperback
I committed the ultimate sin, I saw the movie first!! I know you're probably gasping at how bad that is of me but I have to say the movie was briliant enough for me to go out and buy the book and I'm glad I did. The book has many differences to the movie and I can see where the moviemakers changed things around and why and I'm glad to say that it still works as otherwise I would never have bought the book. The book is amazing, I fell in love with the characters and even though I'd seen the movie first I was able to imagine something different to what I'd seen. The book is a rich vibrant book with a great story full of wonderful characters, buy it, read it, treasure it. I tell you that it's well worth reading it will fill you with a lot of joy and make you want to go out to France and just sit in a store just like the one in the book and drink hot chocolate.
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3.0 out of 5 stars nice escape
I enjoyed the book, I think I was slightly hampered by having seen the movie and so someone elses character images were in my head, rather then allowing me to form my own! Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars An Indulgent Trip into French Rural Life
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A wonderful book which does not date and can be read over and over again.
Having initially read this many years ago I still get lost in it each time I re-read it. Read more
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What a great read I thoroughly enjoyed it. This book made me go out & read almost everything Joanne Harris has written.
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