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Title	:	Five Quarters of the Orange
Author	:	Joanne Harris
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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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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)

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There is something a little unbalanced about this book -- and one gets that feeling from the start. In fact, the title itself suggests a certain asymmetrical allure which is disconcerting: five quarters of the orange suggests a lopsided business, perhaps; but nonetheless a surfeit of something. The "too many" quarters-of-the-orange makes me uneasy and leaves me wondering how it will all fit back together again, once sliced. In the end, the title presages its own problematic ending. I loved

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



Blackberry Wine (1999) & Five Quarters of the Orange (2001) by Joanne Harris Finished Reading: August 2015 Rating: 2/5 & 3/5 I read Harris' Five Quarters of the Orange & Blackberry Wine back to back, thus the double review. They are very similar, actually; a little too much. Both feature lead female protagonists that have strong, proud, independent, walled-away personalities, unwilling to accept, let alone ask, others for any sort of assistance. In both, they are not the lead

Harris chose brilliantly when she made 9-year-old Framboise the protagonist of this novel. The novel is based on Framboise's lies and deceptions dating back to one childhood summer in occupied France in WWII and continuing into her old age. Everything that seemed superfluous in Blackberry Wine or contrived in Chocolat worked seamlessly here at the service of a tale as relentless as the course of the river Loire and as muddied and tangled as the currents along its banks. (SPOILER) My only

From the author of "Chocolat" comes this novel set in a village on the banks of the Loire. The main character again has a shop - in this case a crêperie. Again, food plays a central part in the story. But this is a much darker story altogether, and a much more satisfying read.Framboise is the daughter of Mirabelle Dartigen - a woman held responsible by the villagers for a terrible tragedy which took place during the German occupation many years previously. Framboise returns to the village

Under the shroud of a new identity an aging woman returns to her childhood town. She opens a café and reopens the wounds of her past. In German-occupied France, 9 year old, Framboise, and her brother and sister secretly befriend a German soldier and trade secrets for black market goods. Using the black market oranges to provoke her mothers migraine headaches, Framboise torments the woman and ensures herself unsupervised time with the soldier. The friendship spurs a series of events which affect