Jan 2, 2010
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Esquivel, Laura
Esquivel, Laura
(
1950
–
),
Mexican writer of best-selling novels. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate (
1989
, Like Water for Chocolate) fuses a romantic but deferred love affair that ends with death by orgasm with a family saga traced through women in the kitchen, with actual recipes, in a fluent style of exaggerations where metaphors are literal (see magic realism
).
Esquivel
scripted the film made by ex-husband
Alfonso
Arau
in
1993
. The well-crafted, self-conscious playfulness of
Esquivel's
La ley del amor (
1995
; The Law of Love,
1996
) includes a CD and comic book sections, in a
science fiction
format.
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