An edition of Como agua para chocolate (1989)

Like water for chocolate

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An edition of Como agua para chocolate (1989)

Like water for chocolate

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  • 26 Have read

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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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
257

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Subjects

virginity, magical realism, Self-growth, violence, passion, rebellion, food, Mexican cuisine, love at first sight, Fiction, familia, mexican cookery, mothers and daughters, sisters, Social life and customs, Cuentos de amor, Family, Family life, Man-woman relationships, Ficción, Drama, Mexican Cooking, Families, Love, Películas cinematográficas, Novela, Love stories, Literature, Cooking, Man-woman relationship, Cocina, Familias, Belletristische Darstellung, Frau, Kochen, Alltag, Manners and customs, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, regional, Mexico, fiction, Large type books, Madre e hija, Hermanas, Cocina mexicana, Teen fiction, World literature, Fiction subjects, Peoples & cultures - fiction

People

Josefita de la Garza, Pedro Muzquiz, Elena de la Garza, Gertrudis de la Garza, Rosaura de la Garza, John Brown, Nacha, Chencha, Roberto Muzquiz, Esperanza Muzquiz, Alex Brown, Nicolas, Juan Alejandrez, Jesus Martinez

Places

Mexico, San Antonio, Texas

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Cover of: Como Agua Para Chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate
Como Agua Para Chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate
October 1999, Rebound by Sagebrush
Library Binding in Spanish
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Like Water for Chocolate
1995-11, Anchor Books, Doubleday
Paperback in English - 1st Anchor Books trade paperback edition (1)
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Como a gua para chocolate
1995, Editora Record
Hardcover in Portuguese
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Like Water for Chocolate
1995-11, Anchor Books / Doubleday
Trade Paperback in English - First Anchor Books Trade Paperback Edition (7)
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BittersüÃÂe (BittersuBe) Schokolade
December 1, 1994, Suhrkamp
Mass Market Paperback in German
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Like water for chocolate
1993, Doubleday
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1992-10, Doubleday
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Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
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Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
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Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
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Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
863

The Physical Object

Pagination
(257)p. ;
Number of pages
257

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17271755M
ISBN 10
0385403933
OCLC/WorldCat
31358176
Library Thing
3238818
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878797

Excerpts

Take care to chop the onion fine. To keep from crying when you chop it (which is so annoying!), I suggest you place a little bit on your head. The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can't stop. I don't know whether that's ever happened to you, but I have to confess it's happened to me, many times. Mama used to say it was because I was expecially sensitive to onions, like my great-aunt Tita.
Page 5, added by Alex Voytek.

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