Recounts the famous tale of the race between the persevering turtle and the boastful rabbit.

A classic love story which takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter weeps so violently that she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special...

A retelling of Aesop's fable in which a miller and his son, on their way to market with their donkey, find it impossible to please everyone they meet.

Celia and Fernando decide to embark on a Caribbean cruise in an attempt to regain an intimacy decimated by the marriage routine. The journey through the islands begins at the sweet rhythm of the boleros. And, little by little, the reader goes back in the past seemingly anodyne and modest of the protagonists, until arriving at that other life, infinitely richer and more suggestive, where couples often crouch in passionate secrets, unspeakable and,...