![]() ![]() Like Water for Chocolate is divided into 12 chapters, one for each month of the year, and each chapter comes with a Mexican recipe that correlates to a specific event in the protagonist's life. The novel won the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award for Adult Trade in 1994. Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks.Įsquivel employs magical realism to combine the supernatural with the ordinary throughout the novel. The novel follows the story of a young woman named Tita, who longs for her beloved, 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. ![]() The English version of the novel was published in 1992. It was first published in Mexico in 1989. ![]() Like Water for Chocolate ( Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. ![]()
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