![]() ![]() Least of all the Resistance, that fabulous quasi-organization. To the children, of course, these were mere abstractions: "We understood so little of it. Harris has a challenging project here: to show the complicated, messy reality behind such seemingly simple terms as collaborator and Resistance. ![]() Yet their relationship with Tomas led to a violent series of events that still torment the aging Framboise. ![]() This intrigue provided a distraction from their grim home life-their father was killed in the war and their mother was a secretive, troubled woman. Back then, she and her brother and sister traded on the black market with the Germans, developing a friendship with a charismatic young soldier named Tomas. The proprietor of a café in a rustic village, this crabby old lady recalls the days of her childhood, which coincided with the German occupation. This time she follows the fortunes of Framboise Dartigan, named for a raspberry but with the disposition of, well, a lemon. In Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris returns to the small-town, postwar France of Chocolat. ![]()
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