Like Water for Chocolate

A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

Trade Paperback, 246 pages

English language

Published Nov. 2, 1995 by Anchor Books / Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-42017-4
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OCLC Number:
1035074019

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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.

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Un libro de amor increíble y original. La narración es mezclada con recetas de cocina que permiten ilustrar el saber ancestral de la familia de la novela, y las emociones del personaje principal, Tita. Es una crítica amarga de una tradición que hace de la hija menor una sirvienta de por vida de su madre, aquí mamá Elena. La relación de control de la madre está maravillosamente bien representada. Esta novela corresponde también al realismo mágico, la comida de Tita parece tener algunas veces poderes extraordinarios que permiten transcender las emociones de la heroína. Es una escritura llena de sensualidad aunque el amor parece permanentemente prohibido en esa casa, el matrimonio de la hermana Rosaura no es un matrimonio de amor, la madre es manipuladora y el verdadero amor de Tita, Pedro, se casa con la hermana para quedar cerca de Tita, y es demasiado cobarde para vivir de verdad …

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