Like Water for Chocolate
Ratings131
Average rating3.7
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Ratings131
Average rating3.7
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.
Featured Series
1 primary bookComo agua para chocolate is a 1-book series first released in 1989 with contributions by Laura Esquivel, Thomas Christensen, and Carol Christensen.
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Una de las historias más lindas que he leído, la forma en la que está escrita es 100000/10.
No le doy 5/5 por respeto a John, he deserves better.
(Recomendado por Daniela ♡)
Read this for a book club. Not my normal style of book but an entertaining read none the less. The magic realism and romance was interesting but not something that enthralled me.
Me ha gustado mucho!
Me falta el contexto de las recetas que explica, entiendo que son todo platos típicos mexicanos y me ha faltado el puntito de asociar las experiencias de Tita con las recetas, pero aún así me ha sorprendido para bien! No esperaba que me gustara tanto, ya que el género Romance no es lo mío.
SPOILER
El final me ha dejado un regustillo amargo, por un lado por la soledad de John, y por otro lado por el final del romance de Tita y Pedro... Pero también es cierto que acabar de cualquier otro modo hubiera sido lo "fácil"
** FIN DEL SPOILER**
Magical realism isn't really my reading “thing”, so this wasn't a story I found all that compelling. The main “villain” of the story, Mama Elena, was the most interesting character to me: “Unquestionably, when it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro.” Love that quote.
Even though the book was just okay for me, I'm still interested in seeing the movie, just to see how Mama Elena is portrayed.
I did enjoy the recipes and instructions for cooking various Mexican dishes intriguing. I wished there had been more focus on the historical context of area and time period, but that's because I'm a nerd. :-)
