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Chocolat : a novel

ISBN: 9780140282030
ISBN: 0140282033
ISBN: 9780141000183
ISBN: 014100018X
Physical Description: 306 pages ; 20 cm. print
Publisher: New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2000, ©1999.

Harris, Joanne 1964- (Author).

Summary: A young widow opens a chocolate shop in a French village, transforming its normally austere inhabitants into unabashed sensualists. The event coincides with Lent, and the villagers' rejection of traditional self-denial angers the parish priest who declares war. A first novel.