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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  r1hard | Nov 22, 2009 |  I found this book at a book sale and bought it because I really enjoyed "Gentlemen and Players" by the same author. I recently gave up on a book by her that was completely unlike Gentlemen and Players and this one seems to be right in between the two books. I had already started to wonder if there are two different authors of the same name. Five Quarters of the Orange has elements of both books - the mystery buried in the past, hinted at and slowly, very slowly revealed of G&P and the almost sensual stories about food and cooking and french countryside of Blackberry Wine. Add forbidden love and coming of age and you have a beautiful book, that manages what few do: to have an interesting storyline both for the present and the past. (  ) verenka | Oct 21, 2009 | Dark. Very dark. But most books capturing Western European life during World War II are. The beginning was slow, but once the true storytelling began, the pace picked up immensely. (  ) echoesofstars | Oct 18, 2009 | The story of Framboise (Boise) Dartigen and her childhood in Occupied France and the secrets it held. A story partly about childhood and how the world of the child and the world of the adult are light years apart although existing in the same place and time. The German who befriends the Dartigen children becomes an ally in a world enemy adults, the old teacher they betray is a member of the resistance but to them just an interfering adult. No one is heroic and everyone just tries to get by. Less of a mystical air to this book than Chocolat, but plenty about the food of France. (  ) Greatrakes | Sep 30, 2009 | I like the plot, the food (and fish) analogies and the fact that the main character is not saccharine which makes her seem all the more real. The book moves along at a deliberate pace in keeping with Framboise's character but is still a page turner. ( ) So1ange | Aug 25, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0060958022, Paperback)In her bestselling and critically acclaimed novel Chocolat, Joanne Harris told a lush story of the conflicts between pleasure and repression. Now she delivers her most complex and sophisticated work yet, an unforgettable tale of mothers and daughters, of the past and the present, of resisting and succumbing -- an extraordinary work of fiction lined with darkness and fierce joy.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 woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to the tragedy that indelibly marked that summer of her ninth year....(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Hauptsächlich aber geht es um die Geschichte von Fromboise, die viel über ihre Mutter erzählt, mit der schwer auszukommen war. Die Mutter hat in einer Kladde Rezepte aufgeschrieben und hinterlies sehr geheimnisvolle Notizen. Framboise'Neffe und dessen Frau, die ein Restaurant betreiben, sind hinter dieser Kladde und den Rezepten her und lassen sich so manche Intrige einfallen, um Framboise zum aufgeben zu bewegen.
Fünf Viertel einer Orange halte ich für sehr empfehlenswert.