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The
2003 Award
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Swift as Desire by
Laura Esquivel Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Doubleday ISBN 0385602766 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| 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 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 in Morse code, just as Júbilo used to do for other people? This is Laura Esquivel's loving tribute to her father, who worked his own lifelong magic as a telegraph operator. She shows us how keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness, and how communication is the key to love. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Laura Esquivel is the award-winning author of Like Water for Chocolate, which has sold over four and a half million copies around the world in thirty-five languages, and The Law of Love. She lives in Mexico City. |
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an excerpt from Swift as Desire
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