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Title: Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris ISBN: 0-06-095802-2 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (55 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow...
Comment: Five Quarters of the Orange has left me speechless. Wow... what a wonderful novel. I just finished last night and I don't know how I slept eight hours without thinking of these characters. Joanne Harris, one of my favorite authors, has yet to disappoint me. This 3rd book I've read by her is now my new favorite.
Five Quarters tells the story of Framboise Simon, a older woman who comes back to the town of her youth, Les Laveuses, a small village near the Loire. She has come home in secret ~ no one in town knows who she really is: the daughter of Mirabelle Dartigen, the woman whom the town had ridiculed, harassed, tortured and defamed nearly 50 years before.
While making her home once again in Les Laveuses, Framboise recounts her childhood in startling detail, beautiful and powerful prose that will leave the reader speechless. Framboise, at the age of nine, was involved in something so innocent ~ wanting to be accepted and included in the lives of her older brother and sister, Cassis and Reine-Claude ~ but this innocence takes a harrowing and terrifying turn. Set during the German Occupation of World War II, the events that take place that year will forever change her, her family and the town of Les Laveuses.
Joanne Harris is a true artist. Her masterpiece, Five Quarters of the Orange, is so breathtakingly beautiful. I was on the edge of my seat wondering what the big secret was, or at least that last final detail that changed everything. I did not see it coming, that's for sure! And it was truly stunning.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good mix of love, hate, history, mystery, and food
Comment: As with Harris's other books, I was captivated. The themes of food and secrets and old stories that run through her books were all again present here, but this time the evils of Nazism (both near and far) lent a darker tone to the story.
Harris's transitions from past to present were less successful than in Chocolat and Blackberry Wine, and I found it difficult to keep the characters straight at times.
But once again, the author manages to surprise, entrance, puzzle, and inform us through our senses as well as through her words.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sensual and Emotional Tale
Comment: I became quite engrossed in this story. It weaves such beautiful elements of provincial life; the book is very sensual. The foods described can almost be smelled and tasted by the reader, and the beauty of the forest and the Loire river can be clearly visualized.
As an old woman with many secrets, Framboise moves back to the village of her youth. She renovated her family's farm and cleans up the orchards on the land. She opens her restaraunt and become the talk of the town with her wonderful recipes. Yet, the secrets that she hides constantly stay on her mind... she recalls the summer when she was nine years old, the summer when her life changed forever.
I felt the story line was quite complex, yet very readable and well-executed by Harris. This was my first book by her, and I was very impressed with the style and tone of her writing. A great pleasure to read.
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Title: Blackberry Wine : A Novel by Joanne Harris ISBN: 0380815923 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Chocolat by Joanne Harris ISBN: 014100018X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Coastliners : A Novel by Joanne Harris ISBN: 0060958014 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Coastliners : A Novel by Joanne Harris ISBN: 0060198125 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bel Canto: A Novel by Ann Patchett ISBN: 0060934417 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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