As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart.
She lives in Mexico City..
About the Author: Laura Esquivel is the award-winning author of Like Water for Chocolate, which has sold more than four and a half million copies around the world in thirty-five languages, as well as The Law of Love and, most recently Between Two Fires .
Only years later, as J bilo lies dying, is his daughter able to unravel the mystery behind her parents\' long estrangement and bring about a surprising reconciliation.
But their passion for each other enables them to build a happy life together -- until their idyll is shattered by a terrible event that drives them bitterly apart.
She believes money is necessary to insure happiness, while for J bilo, who is poor, love and Desire are more important than possessions.
His life changes forever the day he falls deeply and irrevocably in love with Lucha, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family.
The hero of this novel is J bilo Chi, a telegraph operator who is born with the ability to "hear" people\'s true feelings and respond to their most intimate, unspoken desires.
She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire , the story of a loving and passionate man who has the gift of bringing happiness to everyone except his own wife.
As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart