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Como agua para chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
First Published
2009
Subjects
virginity
magical realism
Self-growth
violence
passion
rebellion
food
Mexican cuisine
love at first sight
Fiction
familia
mexican cookery
mothers and daughters
sisters
Social life and customs
Cuentos de amor
Family
Family life
Man-woman relationships
Ficción
Drama
Mexican Cooking
Families
Love
Películas cinematográficas
Novela
Love stories
Literature
Cooking
Man-woman relationship
Cocina
Familias
Belletristische Darstellung
Frau
Kochen
Alltag
Manners and customs
Fiction, general
Fiction, romance, regional
Mexico, fiction
Large type books
Madre e hija
Hermanas
Cocina mexicana
Teen fiction
World literature
Fiction subjects
Peoples & cultures - fiction
Description
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.