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Like Water For Chocolate
  • Published: 1 September 1993
  • ISBN: 9780552995870
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99

Like Water For Chocolate

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1 Sept 1993
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1 July 2010
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The intoxicating international bestseller about love, cooking and magic, perfect for fans of Joanne Harris and Isabel Allende.

The intoxicating international bestseller about forbidden love, cooking and magic, perfect for fans of Joanne Harris and Isabel Allende.

'This magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and summering sensuality is something I will savour for a long time' MAUREEN LIPMAN

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.

'A joy... Has an energetic charm that's quite impossible to resist' LITERARY REVIEW

'An epic love story with recipes and a sprinkling of magical realism' WASHINGTON POST

'Enchanting...an open-eyed fairy story complete with ugly sister' BARBARA TRAPIDO

'A Mexican culinary romance to make the mouth water' SHE

'Ingenious' INDEPENDENT
  • Published: 1 September 1993
  • ISBN: 9780552995870
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel is one of Mexico's most celebrated writers. She now divides her time between Mexico City and New York. Originally a screenwriter, she wrote the script for the award-winning film of her first book, Like Water for Chocolate.

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Praise for Like Water For Chocolate

This magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and simmering sensuality is something I shall savour for a long time

Maureen Lipman

It's a joy... it has an energetic charm that's quite impossible to resist

Literary Review

If originality, a compelling tale and an adventure in the kitchen are what you crave, Like Water For Chocolate serves up the full helping

Carla Matthews, San Francisco Chronicle

A wondrous, romantic tale, fuelled by mystery and superstitition as well as by the recipes that introduce each chapter

Los Angeles Times

Exuberant... for those who like their wines full-bodied and their meals rich and zesty... earthly secrets of strength, suffering, passion and cooking in a humorous and well-drawn portrait of a woman who loves as well as she cooks

Washington Post

Charming, instructive, savoury

The Times

Subverts macho morality with refreshingly unexpected narrative twists magical realism... pacing that rivals Romancing the Stone

Maureen Freely

An enchanting book, an open-eyed fairy story

Barbara Trapido

Wonderful... hard to put down... it is rare to come across a book so unusual

Steve Vines, South China Morning Post
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