Like Water for Chocolate
By: Laura Esquivel
Edition: Black Swan edition (44)
Publisher: Black Swan; Trans-World
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Como agua para chocolate
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780552995870
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Modern fiction; General; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: Take care to chop the onion fine.
Description: The number one bestseller in Mexico 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 and bittersweet wit. 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 in desperation he marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her. For the next 22 years Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain 9f tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.
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Notes: UK