Chocolat

(Chocolat 1)

Joanne Harris

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«A celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerance»
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'A feel-good book of the first order. One to curl up with... Read it' OBSERVER

In the small French village of Lansquenet, nothing much has changed in a hundred years. Then an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, blows in on the changing wind with her small daughter, and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church. Soon the villagers cannot keep away, for Vianne can divine their most hidden desires.

But it's the beginning of Lent, the season of abstinence, and Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock. Perhaps even a witch...

'Sensuous and thought-provoking... subtle and brilliant' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Is this the best book ever written? Truly excellent' LITERARY REVIEW

'Moody and atmospheric... a richly textured tale' INDEPENDENT

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Detaljer

Forlag: Black Swan
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN: 9780552998482
Utgivelsesår: 2000
Format: 20 x 13 cm
Priser: Winner of Whitaker Gold Book Award 2001. Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1999 and Whitbread Prize Novel 1999.

Om forfatteren

Joanne Harris is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of over twenty novels. Her Whitbread-shortlisted novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is the author of several other bestsellers, including The Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur Le Curé and The Strawberry Thief. She has also written acclaimed novels in such diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth (Runemarks, Runelight, The Gospel of Loki), and the Malbry cycle of dark psychological thrillers (Gentlemen & Players, Blueeyedboy, and Different Class).

Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE, and in 2022 an OBE. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass and flute in a band first formed when she was sixteen, and works in a shed in her garden. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and served for four years as Chair of the Society of Authors. She also has a form of synaesthesia which enables her to smell colours. Red, she says, smells of chocolate.

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«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"

«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

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zaizzm – 29.04.2005

– Denne boka er kanskje mest kjent som i sim filmatiserte versjon av Lasse Hallstrøm der Juliette Binoche spiller hovedrollen.
Boka starter da kvinnen entrer en litt tilbaketrukket landsby og åpner et forførerisk sjokoladeutsalg, noe som får uante konsekvenser for roen og den relative idyllen på stedet.
Boka er en sanselig hyllest til nytelsen, livsgleden og magien og handlingen foregår i et spennende skjæringspunkt mellom kjærlighet til mat og mennesker.
Dette er underholdning som er så søt og smektende at den vil appellere til de aller fleste. Figurene er ikke særlig komplekse, men det glemmer man fort i de levende beskrivelsene konflikten mellom livsglede og stivnede konvensjoner.