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Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City in 1950. She began her career as a screen-writer, gaining international acclaim and winning several awards. The publication of her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate in 1990 was one of the major literary landmarks of that decade. The film based on the novel, with a script written by Esquivel herself, won several prizes and was also a tremendous hit at the box-office, and an especially notable success in the US. Her following novels, La Ley del Amor, Tan veloz como el deseo and Malinche, had similar success amongst critics and the public alike and have also been widely translated.

Utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-the-century Mexico... (an) exquisite first novel Publishers Weekly A tall-tale, fairy-tale, soap-opera romance, Mexican cookbook and home-remedy handbook all rolled into one, Like Water For Chocolate is one tasty entree from first-time novelist Laura Esquivel San Francisco Chronicle