Like Water for Chocolate is a popular
novel,
published in 1989 by first-time
Mexican novelist
Laura Esquivel.
The novel
follows the story of a
young girl named Tita who longs her entire life for her lover,
Pedro, but can never have him because of her domineering
mother's traditional belief that the youngest daughter must not
marry but take care of her mother until the day she dies. Tita
is only able to express her passions and feelings through her
cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what
she feels.The novel was originally published in
Spanish as
Como agua para chocolate and has been translated into
thirty languages; there are over three million copies in print
worldwide.
follows the story of a
young girl named Tita who longs her entire life for her lover,
Pedro, but can never have him because of her domineering
mother's traditional belief that the youngest daughter must not
marry but take care of her mother until the day she dies. Tita
is only able to express her passions and feelings through her
cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what
she feels.The novel was originally published in
Spanish as
Como agua para chocolate and has been translated into
thirty languages; there are over three million copies in print
worldwide.The novel makes heavy use of magical realism. The novel was made into a film in 1993.[4] It earned all 11 Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, including the Ariel Award for Best Picture, and became the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the United States at the time.
