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An edition of Como agua para chocolate (1989)

Como a gua para 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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Language
Portuguese
Pages
205

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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

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Mexico, San Antonio, Texas

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Como a gua para chocolate
1995, Editora Record
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Like Water for Chocolate
1995-11, Anchor Books, Doubleday
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Like Water for Chocolate
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December 1, 1994, Suhrkamp
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Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
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Published in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Series
Mestres da literatura contempora nea -- 14
Copyright Date
1989

Contributors

Translator
Olga Savary

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
205 p.
Number of pages
205

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26287920M
Internet Archive
isbn_8501154423
ISBN 10
8501154423
ISBN 13
9788501154422
OCLC/WorldCat
431454237, 925577472
Biblioteca Nacional de España Depósito Legal
B.43.643/1995
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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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