| Five Quarters of the Orange |  | Author: Joanne Harris
Publisher: Avon
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 9,742
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Product Description
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. . . .
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 Great service - description & shipping perfect July 30, 2010
Deborah Phelps
Thanks so much for the quick shipping. Your description was perfect - now I'm off to read!
Five Quarter of the Orange May 23, 2010
Janene Redfield (NEW PORT RICHEY, FLORIDA, US)
Took me a while to really get into the story line. Once there, it was a good read!
Reading for pleasure March 28, 2010
Margaret Dybala (Pearland, Texas United States)
This is a very good book full of characters that are, to me, a bit unlikeable through most of the book. Somehow, though, by the end, I had come to understand and care about them.
This is a story of a widow in wartime France. She suffers from severe migraines (and probably morphine addiction). She has three children who are left to themselves a bit too much and they get too close to a German soldier, a black market dealer. They are just too young to understand the implications.
All of this is juxtaposed to many years later, when the youngest child has returned to the village and lives under another name. She has bought the old farm, and made a nice little restaurant there. No one must know that she is the daughter of her notorious mother.
Through most of the book, the story builds to telling us the awful event that drove her family from the village and made them so hated. At the same time, there is a subplot about her brother's son and his wife, who seem to be poised to let the secret out. What will happen?
That is the crux of the story. But what always makes Harris's books so fine is the beauty of her writing, the way she weaves a story with interesting characters and unexpected motivations.
I really enjoyed this book.
One of my favorite books of all time January 20, 2010
Jill B. Dahlstrom
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Joanne Harris takes us to the world of post WWII France and weaves a complex tale of a mother and daughter, surviving and thriving by running a popular cafe. As always, Ms. Harris brilliantly weaves scents and aromas of foods into her imagery, so that they pull the reader deeper into the tale at hand. In this case, the scent of an orange is emblematic of post traumatic stress and mental illness for the mother -- but for the daughter the orange brings environmental control and a taste of freedom. Through this universal struggle the mystery is gradually revealed in bits and flashbacks. This is a fantastic read.
Decent Book December 2, 2009
Caleb Brown (Henderson, KY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall, I liked the book although it started out really slow it turned into a more interesting story. The best part about this book is the real life experiences the characters face from time to time through the book. It has a good setting and plot with the children of a scornful mother rebelling against their town by telling the German soldiers specific information and leading to the disappearance of many towns people. The part I didn't like was that the children's innocence led them to doing tasks for the men that were the enemy in the first place. That almost inspired an anger that the men were taking advantage of their ignorance.
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