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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies Paperback - 1995
by Esquivel, Laura
- Used
With more than two million copies in print, this beloved novel has become a treasured part of America's literary memory. Now, for the first time, this "tall-tale, fairy-tale, soap opera romance, Mexican cookbook, and home-remedy handbook all rolled into one" (San Francisco Chronicle) is available in trade paper with the original art from the hardcover.
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- Title Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
- Author Esquivel, Laura
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 1, 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0WOPD4002LZH
- ISBN 9780385420174 / 038542017X
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 1030
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Themes
- Catalog Heading: Language Arts/Literature
- Cultural Region: Mexican
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Mexico, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91047188
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies'. The international bestseller.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. For the next twenty-two years 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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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in tum-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.