by Joanne Harris · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724127002
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«Cinco Quartos de Laranja» is the historical fiction novel by Joanne Harris, published by Edições Asa in paperback (320 pages, in Portuguese).
Framboise returns to the small French town where she was born and opens a restaurant that soon becomes famous thanks to the recipes in an old notebook of her mother's. The same pages hide annotations that reveal the events that marked her childhood during the Nazi occupation. A story about memory, family and the wounds of war.
The original title of this novel is Five Quarters of the Orange. This Portuguese edition includes the translation by Sara Santa Clara. The novel was nominated for the Orange Prize for fiction in 2002.
For readers of historical fiction, novels about the Second World War and stories with a strong presence of cooking and family secrets.
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is a British author, best known for her 1999 novel Chocolat, which was adapted into a film of the same name. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, of a French mother and a British father, she was a teacher of French for 15 years and had published three novels during this period before the surprise success of Chocolat enabled her to write full time. Since then she has written over 30 books in a number of genres, including fantasy, psychological thriller, novellas, short stories and non-fiction. Harris' books often feature themes of women's empowerment, folklore, motherhood, community, outsiders and outcasts, and food.
