Like Water for Chocolate
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Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel.
The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita, who longs for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition: the youngest daughter cannot marry, but instead must take care of her mother until she dies. Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks.
Esquivel employs magical realism to combine the supernatural with the ordinary throughout the novel.
The novel won the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award for Adult Trade in 1994.
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1 primary bookComo agua para chocolate
Como agua para chocolate is a 1-book series first released in 1989 with contributions by Laura Esquivel, Thomas Christensen, and Carol Christensen.
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Una de las historias más lindas que he leído, la forma en la que está escrita es 100000/10.
No le doy 5/5 por respeto a John, he deserves better.
(Recomendado por Daniela ♡)
read the dutch version / liked the recipes though the book. but got lost in the understainding of the story line. a bit 4 gettable 4 me. the great niece is the narrator. thats my opinion. tastes differ
Magical realism isn't really my reading “thing”, so this wasn't a story I found all that compelling. The main “villain” of the story, Mama Elena, was the most interesting character to me: “Unquestionably, when it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro.” Love that quote.
Even though the book was just okay for me, I'm still interested in seeing the movie, just to see how Mama Elena is portrayed.
I did enjoy the recipes and instructions for cooking various Mexican dishes intriguing. I wished there had been more focus on the historical context of area and time period, but that's because I'm a nerd. :-)
