Chocolat
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5.0 • 1 calificación
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- $169.00
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- $169.00
Descripción editorial
El chocolate puede ser mucho más que un placer para los sentidos. A veces, una peca minosa tentación y otras, una forma de acercar los sueños a la realidad. Vianne Rocher y su hija Anouk llegan al pueblo de Lansquenet para abrir una chocolatería frente a la iglesia. Vianne es alegre y desenfadada, sensual y misteriosa y parece poseer extraños dones. Para el cura Francis Reynaud, la presencia de esta singular mujer no puede ser sino el primer paso para caer en la tentación y el pecado. Para Vianne, sin embargo, el chocolate es algo más que un placer para los sentidos: gracias al chocolate, las penas se hacen más llevaderas, los secretos más íntimos y los sueños, quizás, se vuelven reales.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The battle lines between church and chocolate are drawn by this British (and part French) author in her appealing debut about a bewitching confectioner who settles in a sleepy French village and arouses the appetites of the pleasure-starved parishioners. Young widow Vianne Roche's mouthwatering bonbons, steaming mugs of liqueur-laced cocoa and flaky cream-filled patisserie don't earn her a warm welcome from the stern prelate of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. In Francis Reynaud's zeal to enforce strict Lenten vows of self-denial, he regards his sybaritic neighbor with suspicion and disdain. Undaunted, Vianne garners support from the town's eccentrics, chiefly Armande Voizin, the oldest living resident, a self-professed sorceress who senses in Vianne a kindred spirit. A fun-loving band of river gypsies arrives, and a colorful pageant unfurls. The novel's diary form--counting down the days of Lent until Easter--is suspenseful, and Harris takes her time unreeling the skein of evil that will prove to be Reynaud's undoing. As a witch's daughter who inherited her mother's profound distrust of the clergy, Vianne never quite comes to life, but her child, Anouk, is an adorable sprite, a spunky six-year-old already wise to the ways of an often inhospitable world. Gourmand Harris's tale of sin and guilt embodies a fond familiarity with things French that will doubtless prove irresistible to many readers. Rights sold in the U.K., Germany, Canada, Sweden, Holland, Spain, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Brazil, Israel, Norway, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland.
