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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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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
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 agua para chocolate
1996-05, Editorial Planeta Mexicana
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Like Water for Chocolate
1995-11, Anchor Books
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Like Water for Chocolate
1995-11, Anchor Books / Doubleday
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Como a gua para chocolate
1995, Editora Record
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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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Como agua para chocolate: novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros
1992, Editorial Planeta Mexicana
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New York

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1992
Translation Of
Como agua para chocolate
Translated From
Spanish

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
863
Library of Congress
PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 1992

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
245p.
Number of pages
246

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32603496M
Internet Archive
likewaterforchoc0000esqu_h2c6
ISBN 10
0385420161
ISBN 13
9780385420167
LCCN
91047188
OCLC/WorldCat
651571798, 973589819, 804920685
Goodreads
58302152

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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. "First paragraph"

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