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Laura Esquivel

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She is the award-winning author of Like Water For Chocolate. She lives in Mexico City. (Publisher Provided) Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City, Mexico on September 30, 1950. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a kindergarten teacher and as a writer for children's television visa mer programs during the 1970s and 1980s. Her first novel, Como Agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate), was published in 1989 in Spanish and in 1992 in English. It was made into a movie, also written by Esquivel, in 1993. The movie won the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures award. Her other novels include The Law of Love, Swift as Desire, Between the Fires, and Malinche. She has also published the children's story Estrellita Marinera, an essay entitled The Book of Emotions, and a philosophical treatise called Intimate Suculencias Kitchen. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Laura Esquivel

Kärlek het som chili (1992) 11,843 exemplar
The Law of Love (1995) 919 exemplar
Malinche (2006) 690 exemplar
Swift as Desire (2001) 531 exemplar
Pierced by the Sun (2014) 137 exemplar
Mi negro pasado (2017) 28 exemplar
The Diary of Tita (2018) 26 exemplar
Als je mijn hart beroert (1991) 10 exemplar
La Estrellita Marinera (1999) 7 exemplar
Een zomer vol liefde (2001) 7 exemplar
REMEDIOS PARA CUERPO Y ALMA (2007) 3 exemplar
VERDE EN LA COCINA MEXICANA (1999) 3 exemplar
Ley del amor, La (2015) 2 exemplar
The Colors of My Past (2020) 2 exemplar
Verleiding 2 exemplar
Leesgids Mexico (2002) 2 exemplar
Felicidade 1 exemplar
A Pequena Estrela do Mar (2001) 1 exemplar
Het beste uit Rainbow : een Bijenkorf selectie (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Malinche Malarka slow (2013) 1 exemplar
Kr̃lek het som chili (1993) 1 exemplar
A Aldeia do Arroz - eBook (2019) 1 exemplar
RECETAT E PASIONIT 1 exemplar

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Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar

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Mexiko zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als jüngste von drei Töchtern darf Tita nicht heiraten, sondern muss bis zu deren Tod ihre Mutter versorgen. Pedro, ihre grosse Liebe, heiratet die ältere Schwester, um wenigstens in ihrer Nähe zu bleiben. Ihren Gefühlen kann sie allein in der Küche Ausdruck geben: die Gäste erleben beim Essen nach, was Tita beim Kochen empfunden hat – mit zum Teil grotesken Folgen. Konsequenterweise wird jede der zwölf Episoden von einem Kochrezept eingeleitet.… (mer)
 
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ela82 | 253 andra recensioner | Dec 26, 2023 |
Hyperbole and a sort of spiritualism that is not part of our culture. Are these real recipes?
 
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LDVoorberg | 253 andra recensioner | Dec 24, 2023 |
Like water For Chocolate is a classic! Many know it for the film - watch the film too as it is one of the best book to film adaptations ever done (and probably because the filmmaker was married to the author at the time).

Here we're introduced to the De La Cruz family consisting of Mama Elena and her three daughters Rosara, Gertrudis, and Tita, head cook Nacha, and later on, house maid Chencha.

Tita at a young age attracts the attention of Pedro, who is madly in love with her and wants to marry her. As Tita is the last child born of Mama Elena since her father died after hearing unsettling news about his family she is forced to carry the curse of her mother's family - to live as her mother's caretaker until she dies and never marry. Mama Elena orchestrates Pedro marrying Rosara, whom he claims is to be near her. This spawns a lifetime of sneaking and freaking for them trying to be together intertwined with the lives of the sisters. Tita eventually breaks free of Mama Elena's grip and falls for another man who intends to marry her. After that, Tita's on the warpath to protect her niece Esparanza, whom her sister has vowed to bestow the same family curse upon her as she can't have any more kids.

The story is beautifully crafted under Tita's role as head ranch cook, a job she inherited the day of her sister's marriage. The way the recipes are introduced and the circumstances around each dish is a stroke of genius.

Read this one, you won't be bored.
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Articul8Madness | 253 andra recensioner | Nov 6, 2023 |
When I read this as a teenager I was bewitched. But reading it now almost 25 years later I have a very different opinion. I loved the magical realism but not the main love story or the two lovers. Rosaura's life I found the saddest of all. But Gertrudis' adventures would make a more compelling book.
 
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Stefuto | 253 andra recensioner | Oct 31, 2023 |

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46
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14,484
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3.8
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