Chocolat

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**Chocolat**

First edition cover
Author	Joanne Harris
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Doubleday
Released	4 March 1999
Media Type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	394 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-385-41064-6 (first edition, hardback)

For other uses, see Chocolat (disambiguation).

Chocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris. It tells the story of a young mother (Vianne Rocher) who arrives at a fictional oppressed French village (Lansquenet-sous-Tannes) with her six-year-old daughter (Anouk) and opens La Céleste Praline, a small chocolaterie. Vianne's chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople with her magic.

Chocolat is the French spelling of "chocolate", and is properly pronounced [ʃokoˈla].

[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

For the main film article, go here.

The novel was adapted for film in 2000 directed by Lasse Hallstrom and starring Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench & Johnny Depp

[edit] Release details

1999, UK, Doubleday (ISBN 0-385-41064-6), Pub date 4 March 1999, hardback (First edition)
2000, UK, Black Swan (ISBN 0-552-99848-6), Pub date 2 March 2000, paperback
1999, USA, Viking Adult (ISBN 0-670-88179-1), Pub date ? February 1999, hardback
2000, USA, Penguin Books (ISBN 0-14-028203-3), Pub date ? January 2000, paperback
2000, USA, Penguin Books (ISBN 0-14-100018-X), Pub date ? November 2000, paperback (tie-in edition)