Chocolat : a novel / Joanne Harris.

By: Harris, Joanne, 1964-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Penguin Books, [2000]Copyright date: 2000, ©1999Description: 242 p. ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0670881791; 0385410646; 0552997994 (pbk.) (Black Swan); 0552998486 (pbk.); 0140282033 (pbk.); 9780140282030 (pbk.); 9780552774246 (pbk.); 9780552998482Subject(s): Psychological fiction | Chocolate | Cities and towns | Lent | Choklad -- Frankrike -- skönlitteratur | Fastan -- Frankrike -- skönlitteratur | Chocolate -- France -- Fiction | Lent -- France -- Fiction | Cities and towns -- France -- Fiction | France -- Fiction | France -- Fiction | France | Frankrike -- skönlitteraturGenre/Form: Psychological fiction | Love stories. | Movie novels | Romance fiction | Psychological fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Miscellaneous fiction | Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Psychological fiction. DDC classification: 823/.914 LOC classification: PR6058.A68828 | C46 1999Other classification: 18.05 Online resources: Contributor biographical information Summary: In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful, unmarried newcomer Vianne Rocher and her young daughter sweep into the pinched little town on a wave of gossip. On the heels of the carnival, Vianne promptly opens a chocolate shop right across the square from the church, and thus begins to wreak havoc with the town's Lenten vows. Vianne finds herself embroiled in a battle for the town's souls with the local priest. Father Reynaud, who tries to cast Vianne - with her unconventional, gypsy-like ways - as the village Jezebel. Soon she has effected a civil war in the little country town between those who prefer the cold comforts of the church and those who revel in the warm delights of chocolate.
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In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful, unmarried newcomer Vianne Rocher and her young daughter sweep into the pinched little town on a wave of gossip. On the heels of the carnival, Vianne promptly opens a chocolate shop right across the square from the church, and thus begins to wreak havoc with the town's Lenten vows. Vianne finds herself embroiled in a battle for the town's souls with the local priest. Father Reynaud, who tries to cast Vianne - with her unconventional, gypsy-like ways - as the village Jezebel. Soon she has effected a civil war in the little country town between those who prefer the cold comforts of the church and those who revel in the warm delights of chocolate.

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