浓情巧克力两部：Chocolat & The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris

                
                
感谢matrim君为我们带来精品两部，以及一贯典雅周到的介绍和点评。
薇安和女儿阿努克来到一个平静而闭塞的法国小镇，在教堂对面开了一家巧克力店。薇安不但谙于制作美味的巧克力，更有一种特殊的能力，初次会面就知道顾客的喜好与口味。小镇上的人从好奇窥探，到试品接收，再到一些忠实顾客慢慢聚集在她的店里，成为超越商业关系的朋友。巧克力给小镇带来美味，也改变了一些人的生活，但也给薇安带来敌人。第一位的就是牧师雷诺。雷诺从开始就怀疑薇安不是一般的人，反感和巧克力联系的感官享受，更怕给小镇的邪恶影响。两人较量最后的收尾很幽默，出人意料。
根据小说改编的同名电影《浓情巧克力》由德普和比诺什主演，感兴趣的可以搜搜看。小说由Juliet Stevenson朗诵，比起古典名著，读现代书的时候更放松，人物塑造一如既往的出色。小说的文笔不错，故事也挺好看，但是好莱坞味多了点。
Chocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris. It tells the story of Vianne Rocher, a young single mother, who arrives in the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes at the beginning of Lent with her six-year-old daughter, Anouk. Vianne opens a chocolate shop, La Céleste Praline, right opposite the village church, and throughout the traditional season of fasting and self-denial, proceeds to gently change the lives of the villagers who visit her chocolaterie with a combination of sympathy, subversion and a little magic.
This scandalizes the parish priest, Francis Reynaud, and his supporters. As tensions run high, the community is increasingly divided. And as Easter approaches, pitting the ritual of the Church against the indulgence of chocolate, Father Reynaud and Vianne Rocher face an inevitable showdown.
Harris has indicated that several of the book's characters were influenced by individuals in her life:[1] Her daughter forms the basis for the young Anouk, including her imaginary rabbit, Pantoufle. Harris' strong-willed and independent great-grandmother influenced her portrayal of both Vianne and the elderly Armande.
Chocolat is French for "chocolate", and is pronounced [ʃɔkɔˈla] or "shocola".
A sequel to the novel, The Lollipop Shoes, was released in the UK in 2007; under the title The Girl with No Shadow, it was released in the US in 2008.[2] In 2012, a third chapter in Vianne's story was published, entitled Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Peaches for Father Francis in the US).
©1999 Joanne Harris; (P)2006 BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
                
                
The Lollipop Shoes是Chocolat的续集，距上一本书过去了4年，薇安带着女儿阿努克离开了小镇到了巴黎，改了名姓（薇安改成伊安），更改了过去个性的装束，开朗的性格，生活暗淡无趣。更糟的是小女儿罗塞特4岁了还不会说话，需要时时的照顾，大女儿阿努克正处青春期，和母亲不复原来的亲密无间。在一堆烦心事里，还要加上巧克力店的房东追求伊安，两个女儿都不很喜欢这个。这时一个穿着红色高跟鞋的神秘女人Zozie闯进她们的生活，给巧克力店帮工，短短时间就让店里焕然一新，还劝伊安重新制作巧克力，和阿努克成为朋友。但在伊安心中总有隐隐不安，事后证明她的直觉没错，生活表面的平静下正酝酿着爆发。。。
续集的人物关系、心理描写比第一本黑暗、复杂不少，也比第一本更有意思。Stevenson的朗诵让人叹服，书中以三位女性（伊安、阿努克、Zozie）的视角叙述，但并没有任何提示，读者只能从上下文里猜。Stevenson靠嗓音的变化让听者立刻辨出人物的身份，无论是人物性格还是细微的情绪变化，都拿捏得极为生动、自然。
两本书里都有些法语（包括地名、人名、物品名和短语），不影响故事大意理解。
The Lollipop Shoes (retitled The Girl with No Shadow in the U.S.) is a 2007 novel by Joanne Harris and is a sequel to the best-selling Chocolat. Set between Hallowe'en and Christmas, it continues the story of the chocolate-making witch, Vianne Rocher, and her two young daughters, Anouk and Rosette.
After leaving Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, Vianne has been living in the Montmartre quarter of Paris for the past four years. She has forsaken magic to live a normal life, and is quietly resigned to having lost her identity. However, just as she is about to make the terrible mistake of marrying a man she does not love just for the sake of respectability, she is befriended by the mysterious and free-spirited Zozie de l'Alba, who turns her life - and Anouk's - upside down.
Darker than Chocolat and more openly mystical, the story is told in the first person from the three viewpoints of Vianne, Zozie and Anouk, indicated by the three icons: a sun, a black cat and a crescent moon.
©2007 Joanne Harris; (P)2007 Random House AUDIO GO
                
                
Chocolat | 10h26m | 575MB | 128kbps | 百度下崽
~~Shoes | 15h53m | 815MB | 128kbps | 百度下崽