![]() ![]() If Blackberry Wine is about my paternal grandfather, then Five Quarters of the Orange is about my mother's father (portrayed in uniform on the back cover). ![]() But she is still haunted by the past and by an unresolved mystery, recalled once more to life by the encrypted writing in her mother's old book of recipes. Into this circle comes Tomas Leibnitz, a German soldier who secretly befriends the three children and leads them step-by-step into a world of betrayal, blackmail and lies.Ī lifetime later, Framboise, the last survivor of the ill-fated group, returns under a different identity to the village in which she was born, meaning to make a new start as the proprietor of a small crêperie-restaurant. ![]() With no father and only their harsh and overworked mother to care for them, the three children inhabit a strange and brutal world in which adults are a different race, and which works according to a completely different set of moral values. Set in a small village near Angers on the Loire, it deals with the fortunes of a widow and her three children, Cassis, Reine-Claude and Framboise, against the background of the German Occupation. This completes the "food trilogy" ( Chocolat, Blackberry Wine) and explores some of the same themes, although this third book is much darker than the previous two. ![]()
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