ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City inr 1950. Her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (1989), stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for over one year, has been translated into more than thirty-three languages, and has sold about three million copies around the world. The film, based on the novel, with a script written by Esquivel herself, not only won several prizes but was an impressive box-office success. Laura Esquivel lives in Mexico.