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Rachel
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This is an award-winning debut novel set in Piedras Negras, near the Texas-Mexico border, during the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s, by Mexican teacher-come-author Laura Esquivel. The book is divided into 12 monthly installments or chapters each featuring its own recipe.

The story centres around the de la Garza family of women. Tita is madly in love with her sweetheart Pedro but their marriage is forbidden by her mother as tradition dictates that as the youngest daughter,
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Salma Saeed
بحب جدا الروايات اللى بتطلعك من العالم اللى انت فيه و بتاخدك لعالم جديد متعرفش عنه حاجة فتبدأ تستمتع بكل تفاصيلها
ببساطة الرواية بتدخل بيك لعالم ساحر و بتخليك مستني كل وصفة بمقاديرها و طريقة تحضيرها و تستمتع بكل وجبة كأنك بتاكلها معاهم
حبيت طريقة الحكى جدا و وصف الحواديت الصغيرة لكل حاجة .. طريقة تيتا فى عمل الوصفات .. طريقة حياتهم .. كلام ناتشا .. نظرية جون ..
اه فى حاجات كتير مش واقعية اوى بس ده مضايقنيش اوى بصراحة قدام جمال الرواية
اه صح انا سمعتها من على كتاب صوتى مقريتهاش و دى كانت تحربة ممت
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