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Hi!
I recently read the above book and loved it. I thought the story was so beautiful. I would love to find another book which has just a little twist of fantasy,so if anyone can recommend one please do!
thankyou! Sarah

Mistress of Spices
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I wasn't sure about it. Got to the end and kinda thought 'hmmmmmm.'
How about 'the mistress of spices'??? was film but the book is much better.

Mistress of Spices
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I wasn't sure about it. Got to the end and kinda thought 'hmmmmmm.'
How about 'the mistress of spices'??? was film but the book is much better.

Hi Sarah, I recently reread water for chocolate after many years. Loved it all over again. Mistress of spices does have the mystical food connection. If you are looking for the latin american flavour any of Isabelle Allende's early works are just magical. I don't know what has happened with her last four or five novels. since she moved to a more american market they are missing the chaotic, colour and otherworldly charm. I keep reading them in the hope that she returns to form...!

Try Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, I think you would probably really enjoy it, like Like Water for Chocolate it is one of the 'lighter' Latin American magical realism novels.

Quoted from sarah clayton View Post

Hi! I recently read the above book and loved it. I thought the story was so beautiful. I would love to find another book which has just a little twist of fantasy,so if anyone can recommend one please do! thankyou! Sarah

You must hunt out the film now - superb! LIke Water for Chocolate was recommended to me by a penpal in Trinidad where it is now standard reading on the Spanish Literature sylabus - loved it loved it loved it! For more food and romance try La Cucina by Lily Prior, for Latin American passion any Allende or Lovesick by Angeles Mastretta. Happy reading!

True Story Based on Lies
Jennifer Clement

You might also enjoy 'A True Story Based on Lies' by Jennifer Clement. Although not as sensual as Like Water for Chocolate, it has an underlying sense of magic in the folklore & beliefs of the characters. It's a beautiful book - the language is lyrical, the story is understated yet powerful and the atmosphere is charged.

For a completely different atmosphere but a magical infusion, 'The Seas' by Samantha Hunt is also a beautifully written book.

I edited the above post with some further suggestions, but they seem to have disappeared. I also recommend 'La Cucina' by Lily Prior; and although I haven't read it, there seems to be some thematic overlap with 'The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake' by Aimee Bender, too.

I have been looking for this book for a while, my library didn't have it, and luckily it came into the charity shop where I work just yesterday. Another one for the tbr pile.

Finally read this and thoroughly enjoyed it.