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Esquivel's second novel, The Law of Love (1996; see separate entry), revisits and revises the theme which permeates Like Water for Chocolate. Love is the prime mover of the universe in both books, though the later book transcends human love in favor of Divine Love. In that book, an urban technological future replaces a rural turn-of-the-century past, and science fiction stands in for magical realism. The past is the key to one's essential self in both, though characters in Esquivel's twenty-third century must sort back through up to 14,000 reincarnations in...
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