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Swift as Desire

Laura Esquivel

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.6 | 2761 Users | 214 Reviews

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Title	:	Swift as Desire
Author	:	Laura Esquivel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	August 27th 2002 by Anchor (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Romance. Magical Realism. Historical. Historical Fiction

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An enchanting, bittersweet story, touched with graphic earthiness and wit; Esquivel shows us how keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness, and how communication is the key to love. Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Júbilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as an interpreter between his warring Mayan grandmother and his Spanish-speaking mother, he would translate words of spite into words of respect, so that their mutual hatred turned to love. When he grew up, he put his gift to good use in his job as a humble telegraph operator. But now the telegraph lies abandoned, obsolete as a form of communication in the electronic age, and don Júbilo is on his deathbed, mute and estranged from his beloved wife, Lucha, who refuses to speak to him. What tragic event has come between two such sensuous, loving people to cause their seemingly irreparable rift? What mystery lies behind the death of the son no one ever mentions? Can their daughter bring reconciliation to her parents before it is too late, by acting as an interpreter between them, just as Júbilo used to do for other people? Swift as Desire is Laura Esquivel's loving tribute to her father, who worked his own lifelong magic as a telegraph operator. In this enchanting, bittersweet story, touched with graphic earthiness and wit, she shows us how keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness, and how communication is the key to love.

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Original Title:	Tan veloz como el deseo
ISBN:	038572151X (ISBN13: 9780385721516)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Júbilo, Lluvia, Lucha

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It's a love story, the connection between people and things and what happens when sun spots and other disruptive elements come into play and separate us. Jubilo and Lucha have/had a connection that their daughter Lluvia is trying to decipher through the stories of their life.

At first, I thought this book was descriptive and interesting. Around the beginning middle section I was slightly uninterested because I was expecting a different account of Júbilo and more of how he uses his gift. However, the book became more and more interesting and I found it difficult to put it down. The last few pages or so were absolutely beautiful in their description of losing the ones we love and dealing with their death. I also thought Esquivel was accurate and very honest about Love

Repetitive, redundant, erotica told as a fairy tale.

I just need to keep reminding myself that not everything is as wonderful as Like Water For Chocolate. But this book does have that same sort of magical realism that Chocolate had, and it did have many beautiful passages. I especially loved the beginning of Chapter 4, where we learn that "Love is a verb." This is a tragic story of love and loss that will probably please most. It's not perfect, and it's not brilliant, and it's not Chocolate, but it's easily better than average.

1.SummarizeThis book was about a girl named lucha and a guy named jubilo that love so much since they were adolescents they though that they were going to be happy if they married but the girl was rich and the guy was poor they tough they were going to be happy but when they married everything change because they dont have money and the girl wants to buy everithing that was the major problem on their life.2.author purposethe author purpose is to learn that love is not everithing always that you



It healed me. I connected deeply with Jubilo's character and felt my own heart begin to make recovery.