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A magical, sensuous new love story from the writer of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate.
Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Jublio was born with a smile on his face. He previously a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sind and insects whisper. Even as a 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 considered love. When he grew up, he put his gift to good utilization 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 Jublio is on his deathbed, mute and estranged from his beloved wife, Lucha, who won't talk with 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 nobody 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 like Don Jublio used to do for other people?
Swift as Desire is Laura Esquivel's loving tribute to her father, who worked his own lifelong magic as a telegraph operator. With this enchanting, bittersweet story, touched with graphic earthiness and wit, she shows us how keeping secrets will usually lead to unhappiness, and exactly how communication is the main element to love.
