Swift as Desire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385721516)

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 J bilo Chi, a telegraph operator who is born with the ability to "hear" people's true feelings and respond to their most intimate, unspoken desires. His life changes forever the day he falls deeply and irrevocably in love with Lucha, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family. She believes money is necessary to insure happiness, while for J bilo, who is poor, love and desire are more important than possessions. But their passion for each other enables them to build a happy life together -- until their idyll is shattered by a terrible event that drives them bitterly apart. Only years later, as J bilo lies dying, is his daughter able to unravel the mystery behind her parents' long estrangement and bring about a surprising reconciliation.

Author: Laura Esquivel
ISBN-10: 038572151X
ISBN-13: 9780385721516
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2002
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.14w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2006 pg. 61