Swift as Desire
 

Swift as Desire

by Laura Esquivel, Stephen Lytle

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 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.

The hero of this novel is Júbilo Chi, a telegraph operator who... (read more)

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beant
  • Rated 5 stars

A good love-story

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Kat T
  • Rated 2 stars

I chose this book because the title caught my eye and i love reading a good love story once in awhile. This is about a telegraph reporter named Jubilo and he has a special skill of interpretating peoples unspoken desires. As a young boy, he always translated his spanish speaking mother and mayan grandma by changing the real sentences so then there would be no fighting between them. When he finally grows up he meets a special women named Lucha and is his first time when he can't seem to...

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