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

  • 3.7 (17 ratings) ·
  • 309 Want to read
  • 18 Currently reading
  • 27 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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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
Cover of: Como a gua para chocolate
Como a gua para chocolate
1995, Editora Record
Hardcover in Portuguese
Cover of: Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1995-11, Anchor Books / Doubleday
Trade Paperback in English - First Anchor Books Trade Paperback Edition (7)
Cover of: Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1995-11, Anchor Books, Doubleday
Paperback in English - 1st Anchor Books trade paperback edition (1)
Cover of: BittersüÃÂe (BittersuBe) Schokolade
BittersüÃÂe (BittersuBe) Schokolade
December 1, 1994, Suhrkamp
Mass Market Paperback in German
Cover of: Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - printing (6); Movie tie-in
Cover of: Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
January 1992, Books On Tape, Books on Tape
Audio cassette in English
Cover of: Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - Movie Tie-In Edition; printing (18)
Cover of: Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - printing (38)
Cover of: Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - printing (36)
Cover of: Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992-10, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - Movie Tie-In Edition; printing (11)

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OL9494505M
ISBN 10
5557107614
ISBN 13
9785557107617
Goodreads
878796

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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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February 17, 2019 Edited by Lisa Edited without comment.
April 3, 2013 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'Audio Cassette' to 'Audio cassette'; Removed author from Edition (author found in Work)
April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record