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Original Title:	Five Quarters of the Orange
ISBN:	0060958022 (ISBN13: 9780060958022)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Framboise Dartigen, Paul Hourias, Cassis Dartigen, Tomas Leibniz, Mirabelle Dartigen, Reine-Claude Dartigen, Laure Dessanges, Luc Dessanges, Yannick
Setting:	Les Laveuses,1992(France) Les Laveuses,1936(France)
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2002)

Five Quarters of the Orange Paperback | Pages: 307 pages

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The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet - a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story.

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 Mirabelle Dartigen - the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Although Framboise hopes for a new beginning she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother.

With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother's dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet as she studies the scrapbook - searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother's sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor - she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle's cryptic scribbles. Within the journal's tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old.

Rich and dark. Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel of mothers and daughters of the past and the present, of resisting, and succumbing, and an extraordinary work by a masterful writer.

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Title	:	Five Quarters of the Orange
Author	:	Joanne Harris
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 307 pages
Published	:	June 4th 2002 by Harper Perennial (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. France

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I first read this book some time ago. When I read it, I throughly enjoyed it. This year, I found my mind going back to the book several times and decided I needed to read it again.There are only two books (other than the Harry Potter Series) that I have read more than once - Cold Mountain, and now this book. While reading this book for the second time, I wondered at length, what is drawing me back to this book.The story is a dark story of a child growing up with a very difficult, unpredictable

This is simply a lovely book. I took a bit more time with it than usual because the beautiful prose is dense and loaded with layers of meaning and emotions. The first-person narration alternates between that of a nine year old in 1942 Occupied France and the same woman in the same village fifty-four years later as she slowly discloses her long-held secrets. The change in the time frames sometimes occurs abruptly, mid-chapter, so the reader must pay attention. It helps if the reader can read

Whew, this is a wrenching read. It's excellent and 4.5 star, IMHO.The characters are not easily liked, very few are amiable, and the entire is both dramatically and emotionally tense. And that tension is for its entire length and continued within personality and character far beyond the ending. Because our narrator and others are never easy people. Beyond the war and small town France location coupled with the scrumptious cooking and foodie directions, the real core of the story is the tightly

I found this book to be quite a slog. I did finish it, which is why I feel entitled to write this negative review. The main problem I had was that I didn't like or relate to any of the characters. The writing is good enough, and the setting (an occupied French village in WWII) compelling enough that I kept going. And the cooking theme is interesting. But the central relationship between the narrator and her mother is sad and disturbing and ultimately unbelievable. How can the reader sympathize

I ended up liking this book in the end, and would maybe have given it 4 stars, if large parts of it didn't drive me so nuts. I just had a few problems with it. I had a really hard time getting into it; the real story didn't really start until 100 pages into it. And I had a really hard time connecting to the characters in any sort of way. The mom acts like she hates her children the whole book, and the children hate their mom. And when people waste that much energy being mean and cruel to each

Going into this book, I didn't realize how much of it was going to be flashbacks to WWII. It's a family drama where all of the main plot points take place during the war and center around the Nazis' invasion of France. I'm not a big fan of wartime historical fiction, and I honestly wouldn't have picked up this book if I knew that going in.That being said, Joanne Harris's writing was as great as it always is. She has a real talents for writing about food and I wish there was more of it in this