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Laura Esquivel

Start date: July 1, 2019

Finish date: July 31, 2019

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Jan 15, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, mexico, latin-american-literature, historical-fiction, film-only, fiction-20th-century, read-2012

I absolutely loved this story by another author who knows how to portrait the magic realism in Latin American countries.

A movie was made based on this book.

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This movie is about how life used to be in Mexico. It is a love story between Pedro and Tita, and why they coudn't get married because Tita's mother wanted her oldest daughter to get married first, and have Tita to stay and take care of her. It shows how marriage was imposed on those times, and how a love between two people can chan ...more

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Sep 20, 2010 Lisa rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2010-reads

Very different book than I have read before. I enjoyed the unique format of a cookbook directing the chapters, but I think I was hoping for more of a historical fiction, and less of the fantasy elements woven throughout the book. Actually strange for me, because I enjoy fantasy as well... I just don't think it was what I expected. Overall enjoyable though, thus the 4 stars. ...more

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