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Mexico City, the setting for this novel, is like London stretched to the nth degree; so grubby, so socially and ethnically diverse, its snobbery and racism so unassailable, it’s an even greater challenge for native writers to cross society and racial boundaries convincingly. Laura Esquivel’s earlier hit, Like Water for Chocolate, had little need of that, rocking an absurd Viva Zapata! plot with cartoon-levity in an apocryphal Wild West-type past.
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