Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel - Couverture souple

Harris, Joanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061214604 ISBN 13 : 9780061214608

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2007

Synopsis

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. . . .

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and bron as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise,a secretive widow names after a raspberry liquery, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets her memory play strange games.

Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise's nephew - a profiteering Parisian - attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes she has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers of Les Laveuses. As the spilt blood of a tragic wartime childhood flow again, exposure beckons for Framboise, the widow with an invented past.

Biographie de l'auteur

Joanne Harris is the author of seven previous novels—Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, Sleep, Pale Sister, and Gentlemen & Players; a short story collection, Jigs & Reels; and two cookbook/memoirs, My French Kitchen and The French Market. Half French and half British, she lives in England.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061214604
• ISBN 13: 9780061214608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336