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The number-one bestseller in Mexico in 1990, Like Water for Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with bittersweet moments of magic and sensuality. Evocative of How to Make an American Quilt in structure, Tampopo in its celebration of food, and Heartburn in its irony and wit, it is a lively and funny tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico.
The narrator's great-aunt Tita is the youngest of three daughters born to Mama Elena, the tyrannical owner of De la Garza ranch. While still in her mother's womb, she wept so violently--as her mother chopped onions--that she caused Mama Elena to begin early labor, and Tita slipped out in the middle of the kitchen table, amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon became a way of life, and Tita grew up to be a master chef. Each chapter of the novel begins with one of Tita's recipes and her careful instructions for preparation.
In well-born Mexican families, tradition dictates that the youngest daughter not marry, but remain at home to care for her mother. Even though Tita has fallen in love, Mama Elena chooses not to make an exception, and instead, arranges for Tita's older sister to marry Tita's young man.
In order to punish Tita for her willfulness, Mama Elena forces her to bake the wedding cake. The bitter tears Tita weeps while stirring the batter provoke a remarkable reaction among the guests who eat the cake. It is then that it first becomes apparent that her culinary talents are unique.
Laura Esquivel's voice is direct, simple, and compelling. She has written a fresh and innovative novel, bringing her own inimitable strengths to a classic love story.
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Como agua para chocolate : novela en doce entregas con recetas, amores y remedios caseros - 1. edición
2015, Debolsillo
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Kal Ma Lilshukulata Como Agua Para Chocolate Like Water for Chocolate Arabic
2014, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
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Como agua para chocolate : novela en doce entregas con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
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Like Water for Chocolate
May 2, 2006, RH Audio
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Como agua para chocolate
2001, Bibliotex, S.L. (Biblioteca El Mundo)
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Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate)
January 2001, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate
December 2001, Mondadori (IT)
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Como agua para chocolate
July 30, 1999, Alfaguara Ediciones, S.A. (Spain)
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Como Agua Para Chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate
October 1999, Rebound by Sagebrush
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Like Water for Chocolate
October 1999, Tandem Library
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Like Water for Chocolate
December 1999, Doubleday Doubleday
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Como Agua Para Chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate
October 1998, Grijalbo Mondadori Sa
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Bittersüße Schokolade.
February 1, 1998, Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH & Co. KG / Ullstein Tas
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Como agua para chocolate
1997, Grijalbo Mondadori
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Como agua para chocolate
1996-05, Editorial Planeta Mexicana
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Like Water for Chocolate
1995-11, Anchor Books, Doubleday
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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
1995-11, Anchor Books
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1995-11, Anchor Books / Doubleday
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Like Water for Chocolate
January 1, 1994, Random House Audio
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BittersüÃÂe (BittersuBe) Schokolade
December 1, 1994, Suhrkamp
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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
March 1994, Chivers North Amer
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Like Water for Chocolate
September 1994, Perfection Learning Prebound, Perfection Learning
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January 1, 1994, Random House Audio
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Like Water for Chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
1994-09, Anchor Books, Anchor
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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales, con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
1994, Grijalbo S.A. de Venezuela, Narrativa Mondadori
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Like Water for Chocolate
1993, Black Swan, Trans-World
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Qiao ke li qing ren: Like water for chocolate
1993, Ying xiang wen hua shi ye you xian gong si, Zong jing xiao Wu shi tu shu you xian gong si
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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores, y remedios caseros
1993-04, Doubleday
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Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
1993, Curley Large Print
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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
1992, Anchor Books
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Like Water for Chocolate, An Unabridged Production, Books on Tape, Books on CD, Read by Kate Reading
Nov 17, 1992, Doubleday
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January 1992, Books On Tape, Books on Tape
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1992-10, Doubleday
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1992-10, Doubleday
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1992-10, Doubleday
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1992-10, Doubleday
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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies
1992-01-01, Doubelday
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Like Water for Chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
1992-10, Doubleday
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1992-10, Doubleday
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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
1992, Editorial Planeta Mexicana
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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales, con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
1990, Mondadori
in Spanish
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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales, con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
1990, Mondadori
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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
1990, Editorial Planeta Mexicana
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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
1989, Anchor Books
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Ullstein Taschenbucher: Bittersusse Schokolade
Publish date unknown, Ullstein-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Zweigniederlassung der Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH
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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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