Chocolat
A Novel (A Vianne Rocher Novel)
by Joanne Harris
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appears in About France, Romance, and Fantasy.
A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere.Illuminating Peter Mayle's South of France with a touch of Laura Esquivel's magic realism, Chocolat is a ...
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appears in About France, Romance, and Fantasy.
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