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Original Title:	Como agua para chocolate
ISBN:	0552995878 (ISBN13: 9780552995870)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Como agua para chocolate #1
Characters:	Tita de la Garza, Gertrudis de la Garza, Rosaura de la Garza, Mamá Elena, Pedro Muzquiz, John Brown, Nacha, Chencha, Juan Alejandrez
Setting:	Mexico
Literary Awards:	Prêmio Jabuti for Tradução (1994), American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Adult Trade (1994)

Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate #1)

Laura Esquivel

Paperback | Pages: 222 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 316382 Users | 8632 Reviews

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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.

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Title	:	Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate #1)
Author	:	Laura Esquivel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 222 pages
Published	:	September 16th 1993 by Black Swan (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Mythology. Young Adult

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This book was disappointing. It felt overwrought and melodramatic.Tita, the youngest daughter of overbearing Mama Elena, has to give up the hope of ever marrying. It will be her duty to take care of her mother in old age. This becomes a big problem when she meets Pedro. When Pedro learns of Tita's duty to her mother and impossibility of future marriage, he agrees to marry Tita's sister, just so he can be closer to Tita. This sets in motion this fable of unrequited love that is the thread through

Have you ever finished a book and thought "Man, this is going to be hard to review?" Because that's the first thing I thought when I finished this little book by Laura Esquivel. Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies is a book that really left me conflicted. There were things about it that I absolutely loved, and things about it that made me very angry. The only way I can think to write this review is to explain what I found good and

first things first: let's get rid of that ugly movie cover, and switch to the one i actually read....okay, better.this was my final selection for the readventurer challenge. i read them alphabetically, based on the suggester's first name, for arbitrary fairness.it is strange that i have never read this book, as it is magical realism, doomed love story, and about food, all of which are interests of mine.here is a quick story that has nothing to do with the book, and i am going to put it in a

This is a classic love story, wrapped in a lovely shrug of magic realism. The story takes place in Mexico just before the start of the Revolution. In the De la Garza ranch, tyrannical owner, Mama Elena has decided that Tita, her younger daughter will never married, remaining single to take care of her in her old age. Tita, who grows up to be a master chef, has only food and cooking to express herself. Soon, Tita's relationship with food is such, her feelings soon seep into what she cooks



5***** and a ❤UPDATE: Sept 2013On her death, Titas recipe book falls to her grandniece, who then relates the story of her extraordinary relative. The novel takes place in the early 1900s on a ranch in northern Mexico, near the Texas border. The youngest of three sisters, Tita is destined from birth to stay at home to care for her mother, denied the option of love and marriage and her own family. But her attraction to the son of a neighbor rancher, Pedro, will not be so easily dismissed. The

I have come across this book many times on GR but never considered reading it. But then I find it hard to resist BRs, so when a friend suggested this as weekend BR I jumped in right away and finished this in few hours. It's a short and easy read.Like Water for Chocolate tells us the story of Tita and her family. Her falling in love and then a heartbreak because of a stupid family tradition. But at the heart it is story of Tita and her love affair with cooking. How she finds solace in food and