My Chocolate Redeemer

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This is the story of Bella, teenage chocolate junkie, fashion-mad and God-haunted, who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in the lakeside village of La Frisette, somewhere in France.
Uncle Claude — militant atheist, astronomer and professional cynic — is mayor of the village. He is also a member of the popular nationalist party whose leader, the 'Angel' Monsieur Cherubini, is a champagne millionaire dedicated to returning immigrants to their countries of origin. So when an exotic black stranger turns up and takes over the entire floor of the grandest hotel in La Frisette, there is considerable dismay among the local populace. Worse still: word spreads that the unwelcome guest is none other than the former emperor of Zanj, a polygamous African tyrant overthrown in a coup and exiled amid rumours of embezzlement and cannibalism,- a dictator who kept bits of his opponents in the fridge and whose people worshipped him as their Redeemer.
What has brought so fabled a personage to... Tovább

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This is the story of Bella, teenage chocolate junkie, fashion-mad and God-haunted, who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in the lakeside village of La Frisette, somewhere in France.
Uncle Claude — militant atheist, astronomer and professional cynic — is mayor of the village. He is also a member of the popular nationalist party whose leader, the 'Angel' Monsieur Cherubini, is a champagne millionaire dedicated to returning immigrants to their countries of origin. So when an exotic black stranger turns up and takes over the entire floor of the grandest hotel in La Frisette, there is considerable dismay among the local populace. Worse still: word spreads that the unwelcome guest is none other than the former emperor of Zanj, a polygamous African tyrant overthrown in a coup and exiled amid rumours of embezzlement and cannibalism,- a dictator who kept bits of his opponents in the fridge and whose people worshipped him as their Redeemer.
What has brought so fabled a personage to La Frisette? Why is he interested in no one but Bella, and what were the promises he exchanged with her father before his death?
Funny, moving and sharply ironic, full of intellectual fireworks and red-herrings, My Chocolate Redeemer is an outstanding novel which draws on, and surpasses, all the great distinctive qualities of Christopher Hope's earlier fiction. The intriguing relationship between Bella and the Redeemer, set against the self-centred bickerings of a small town, creates a moral fable and political allegory all the more effective for the irony and lightness of touch which this prize-winning author brings to all his work. Vissza