
Swift as Desire
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Narrated by:
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Elizabeth Pe& 241;a
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By:
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Laura Esquivel
But now the telegraph lies abandoned, obsolete as a form of communication in the electronic age, and don Jubilo 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, just as Jubilo used to do for other people?
Swift as Desire is Laura Esquivel's (Like Water for Chocolate) loving tribute to her father, who worked his own lifelong magic as a telegraph operator. In this enchanting, bittersweet story, touched with graphic earthiness and wit, she shows us how keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness, and how communication is the key to love.
©2001 Laura Esquivel (P)2001 Random House, Inc., Random House AudioBooks, a Division of Random House, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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The story opens with Jubilo, bed-ridden after a stroke left him speechless, being tended to by his daughter because his beloved wife and he were estranged. The question is: How could a loving and kind man, endowed with the gift of laughter and joy, be separated from the only woman he ever loved? Esquivel carries the reader back to his youth and caressingly explains the irony of fate that made him uncommunicative.
The book is in the tradition of "Love in the Time of Cholera", but not as dense.
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