Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies Summary and Reviews

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
by Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
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Author: Laura Esquivel
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-02-01
ISBN: 038542017X
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: Perfect recipe and prescription for literary satisfaction
Summary: 5 Stars

manningT@aol.com, 06/02/97, rating=10: Perfect recipe and prescription for literary satisfaction Mama Elena forbids Tita de la Garza to marry her true love Pedro. This "recipe", leads assuredly to adultery and incest. Tita spends her life dispensing superb meals, when not her own breasts, to feed others. The contrast is Tita's half (?) sister who leaves the De La Garza ranch, naked in a horse and face to face with the horse's rider. An excellent translation, that almost automatically and easily fold

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