Chocolade = Chocolate

The book presents a shortened and adapted text at the Intermediate level.


The novel Chocolate, written by English author Joanne Harris, immediately became a bestseller. According to the author, this book is about the stifling mindset of intolerance. The action of... the novel takes place in a provincial French town where the laws of Puritanism and hypocrisy are established by the local church priest. One day, a mysterious stranger, Vianne Rocher, appears in the town, and the lives of the townspeople are turned upside down. Vianne opens a chocolate confectionery that gradually gains popularity. Residents of the town come to share their problems with the responsive and empathetic hostess over a cup of hot chocolate. Full of genuine compassion, brave and independent, Vianne cannot reconcile herself with injustice, and gradually her confectionery becomes a stronghold in the fight against the narrow-minded views, dogmatism, and hypocrisy of the curate and his followers.