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Like Water for Chocolate - Esquivel, Laura

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With more than two million copies in print, this beloved novel has become a treasured part of America's literary memory. Now, for the first time, this "tall-tale, fairy-tale, soap opera romance, Mexican cookbook, and home-remedy handbook all rolled into one" (San Francisco Chronicle) is available in trade paper with the original art from the hardcover.

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Like Water for Chocolate
2006, Random House Audio Publishing Group, New York

ISBN-13: 9780739334195

Abridged

Audiobook CD

Like Water for Chocolate
1996, Transworld Publishers, London

ISBN-13: 9780552995870

Spanish
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Like Water for Chocolate
1995, Perfection Learning, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780780739079

Hardcover

Like Water for Chocolate
1995, Turtleback Books, Wisconsin

ISBN-13: 9780606095563

Turtleback School & Library edition

Hardcover

Like Water for Chocolate
1994, Bantam Books

ISBN-13: 9780385426855

Mass-market paperback

Like Water for Chocolate
1994, Random House Audio Publishing Group, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780553472554

Abridged

Audiobook cassette

Like Water for Chocolate
1992, Doubleday Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780385420167

Hardcover

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All Editions of Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate

2006, Audiobook CD

ISBN-13:

9780739334195

Like Water for Chocolate

1996, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780552995870

Like Water for Chocolate

1995, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780780739079

Like Water for Chocolate

1995, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780606095563

Like Water for Chocolate

1994, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780385426855

Like Water for Chocolate

1994, Audiobook cassette

ISBN-13:

9780553472554

Like Water for Chocolate

1992, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780385420167

Books by Laura Esquivel

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isabelapropst

Jan 12, 2016

Like Water for Chocolate Book Review

Like Water for Chocolate: Book Review

"Like Water for Chocolate" is a Latin American novel written by noted author of Latin-American literature and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. This book takes place along the Texas/Mexican border during the Mexican Revolution. The main character, Tita, grows up in a house with her mother and two other sisters, Gertrudis and Rosaura, and does what she loves most of all, cooking. However this family has far from the typical family drama. This book is crack full of complicated romances and sick family traditions. The author of this novel, Laura Esquivel, did an amazing job at writing this novel. The main strengths that make this book as good as it is the symbolism and meaning used throughout the book.
One great strength of this book is the way that Esquivel uses symbolism throughout the novel. One of these symbols is the matches the author uses to show passion between Tita and Pedro. This "spark" is mentioned many times throughout the novel and it gets bigger until the two loves are consumed in the fire of it. Another amazing symbol in the book is the character Gertrudis. She is the perfect symbol for women empowerment. Instead of becoming a housewife like her families, as well as her society's, tradition at the time. She leaves in lust with a general of the revolutionary war. Not only does she prove that women don't have to wait around for a man to come ask for her hand, but she "became a general in the revolutionary army.... {which} had been earned by sheer hard work, she fought like mad on the field of battle" (178-179) Gertrudis shows that if someone is not happy where they are, then go out and find their passion, find their own adventure.
Esquivel creates a brilliant, meaningful title that perfectly fits this novel. This title has a deeper meaning other than the kitchen. As learned through Tita's cooking, hot chocolate is made using water and it is added as just as the water starts to boil. There are many occasions in this book that Tita is literally "on the verge of boiling over"(151). However, in a similar way to Gertrudis, Tita is a very strong woman. She is the only one to openly challenge her mother, yet does not resort to violence. She uses this strength to push through all of the problems that make her "like water for chocolate."
Although there are many great aspects to this book, there is also a fault in the novel. Esquivel does make the book confusing to the readers in the aspect of time. The twelve chapters in "Like Water for Chocolate" are each titled with a month making the novel seem as though the events taking place consist of one year, however as the novel is read, it is clear that time has gone by many years. Maybe Esquivel did this to confuse its readers; it certainly threw me off.
Overall, "Like Water for Chocolate" is an amazing book filled with heartfelt events that will make the reader cling to the novel. Despite its one fault, the content of "Like Water for Chocolate" is the reason why I give the book 4 and a half stars. I recommend this novel for 16 year olds and up.

Andrea S

Nov 4, 2010

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Book in good condition and was a great price! The book is an old favorite so I was looking to relace my old tattered version. I love the flow of the book. The receipes help break of the text but also help make connections with the reader. Not to mention that they are pretty tasty:)

cmpty

Aug 14, 2008

Steamy!

Good examples of using food to describe a forbidden relationship.

BookPirate

Nov 15, 2007

Lick the Spoon, Buckos, It's That Good

This was a great book, delicious and sumptuous to the last page.
A woman, who is pressed into submission by her dictator-like mother, is forbidden to marry the man she loves. He in turn marries her older sister to be closer to her. The kitchen is our heroine?s workshop. Whatever she is feeling gets swept up into the meal she is making, affecting those who eat it. The lust she feels claims her younger sister, the sorrow inside her crushes her family to tears. Each chapter walks you through the recipes that are created during the story. This was a grand book with a magical realism for spice.

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