MEXICAN LITERATURE – Like water for chocolate, novel by Laura Esquivel

Inside her novels she uses combines the supernatural with everyday life. Laura Esquivel is a Mexican writer and was born in Mexico City. She wrote works for children and film screenplay. Sweet as chocolate (“Como agua para chocolate”), her most famous novel in 1989 was filmed in 1992. In the novel, cuisine becomes the most important place of the houses, the place where knowledge and understanding grow, together with flavors and desires.

Like water for chocolate is a Mexican Baroque story, a book where all passions, carnal and culinary passions, blend together with private destinies and political adventures. Reading it, you will find, that the novel was written with an immediate language, which is literary ingredient, which has conquered the public in every part of the world. From the first encounter, Pedro and Tita are overwhelmed by a bigger feeling of them, but because of rich family tradition, marriage is impossible. She and Pedro will find themselves living under the same roof as their brother-in-law, forced to chastity and yet tied with great sensuality. A love story is born, where food becomes promise and enjoyment, a vehicle of unusual erotic communion.

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