Laura Esquivel





Laura Esquivel

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born
in Mexico D.F., Mexico
September 30, 1950

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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 multimedia in The...more


Average rating: 3.87 · 192,379 ratings · 4,321 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 187,812 ratings — published 1989 — 118 editions
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3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 1,750 ratings — published 1995 — 26 editions
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3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 1,532 ratings — published 2005 — 39 editions
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007
Verde: en la cocina mexicana
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010
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“[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“[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

“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.”
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