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  <name><![CDATA[Laura Esquivel]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[A teacher by trade, Laura Esquivel gained international attention with &lt;i&gt;Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies and The Law of Love&lt;/i&gt;. 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, &quot;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.&quot; 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 Law of Love by combining her science fiction, new age, and spiritual story with a CD of arias by Puccini and Mexican danzones, and forty-eight pages of illustrations by a Spanish artist.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Mexico D.F.</hometown>  <born_at>09/30/1950</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Law of Love]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Malinche: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Swift as Desire]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Esquivel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food, and Flavor]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Esquivel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[An Appetite for Passion Cookbook: Cookbook]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Esquivel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[El libro de las emociones: Son de la razon sin corazon]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Esquivel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[RODE ROZEN EN TORTILLA'S.]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Esquivel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Intimas Suculencias]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Esquivel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Раздавачът на щастие]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Esquivel]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Лаура Ескивел]]></name>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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