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Five Quarters of the Orange

Joanne Harris

Paperback | Pages: 307 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 31094 Users | 2371 Reviews

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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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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	:	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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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

Framboise, daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen, returns to her home village on the banks of the Loire. Anxious about being recognised and causing old enmities to awaken, but wanting to connect with her roots after a long exile, Framboise hopes for a new beginning. But she quickly discovers that the present is always, always distinctly connected to the past. One can never run away from it.Framboise has inherited a recipe book cum diary from her mother, Mirabelle. Is this recipe book just

I have to say that reading this novel made me appreciate Gentlemen and Players a bit more. This time I knew what I was getting with Joanne Harris- a dark atmospheric novel of psychological suspense. She can certainly create dysfunctional child characters! It is hard to imagine that a nine year old could be so ruthless, but it was a different time, a different place, and I felt for Framboise. Just as Straitley was the perfect foil in Gentlemen and Players, so Paul is in Five Quarters of the

I just read this one too and loved it. Good point that it would make a good bookclub read.

This story follows a young girl in a village in France during World War II as she deals with a difficult relationship with her mother and misadventures with her siblings and friends, ultimately leading to a tragedy which she must come to terms with later in life, as she returns home to start over.The story is well-written, weaving childhood whimsy with the dark and dangerous. It did take me a while to get into, as the beginning is a little all over the place, but once I got into it, it was a



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