Part fairy tale, laden with high farce and tongue-in-cheek humor drenched with savage wit and bursts of wisdom, suffused with lush detail and finely drawn interesting characters...

VIANNE Y SU HIJA SE INSTALAN EN UN PUEBLECITO FRANCÉS Y ABREN UNA TIENDA DE CHOCOLATE. LAS GENTES DEL LUGAR ACUDEN FASCINADAS, PERO EL PÁRROCO SE INDIGNA Y TRATA DE LUCHAR CONTRA LO QUE CONSIDERA UN PELIGRO PARA SUS FELIGRESES. ( )

Chocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris. It tells the story of Vianne Rocher, a young single mother, who arrives in the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes at the beginning of Lent with her six-year-old daughter, Anouk. Vianne has arrived to open a chocolaterie—La Céleste Praline—which is on the square opposite the church. During the traditional season of fasting and self-denial; she gently changes the lives of the villagers who visit her with a combination of sympathy, subversion and a little magic.

Lectura de grupo de 07/07/2007 ( )