Laura Esquivel
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born
September 30, 1950
gender
female
place of birth
Mexico D.F., Mexico
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
A teacher by trade, Laura Esquivel gained international attention with Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies and The Law of Love. In both books she manages to incorporate her teaching abilities by giving her readers lessons about life. During an on-line Salon interview with Joan Smith, she said, "As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught." With the intensity of a committed teacher incorporating glitzy stunts into the curriculum to get the attention of her students, Esquivel took a bold step when she incorporated multime...more
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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel avg rating 3.88 — 33,708 ratings — published 1993 71 editions |
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The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel avg rating 3.36 — 525 ratings — published 1995 19 editions |
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Malinche: A Novel by Laura Esquivel avg rating 2.97 — 353 ratings — published 2003 16 editions |
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Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel avg rating 3.40 — 246 ratings — published 2001 28 editions |
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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel avg rating 3.78 — 60 ratings — published 2002 |
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Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food, and Flavor by Laura Esquivel avg rating 3.38 — 32 ratings — published 2001 |
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An Appetite for Passion Cookbook: Cookbook by Laura Esquivel avg rating 3.50 — 18 ratings — published 1995 5 editions |
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El libro de las emociones: Son de la razon sin corazon by Laura Esquivel avg rating 3.27 — 11 ratings — published 2000 4 editions |
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RODE ROZEN EN TORTILLA'S. by Laura Esquivel avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1991 |
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Como água para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2000 |
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"[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love."
— Laura Esquivel (Swift as Desire)
— Laura Esquivel (Swift as Desire)
"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.”"
— Laura Esquivel
— Laura Esquivel
"It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita"
— Laura Esquivel
— Laura Esquivel
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