Swift as Desire, (Paperback)

from sweetiegherkin

Lluvia is caring for her father, a former telegraph operator who is now struggling with ill health, and wonders what happened to make her parents' marriage fall apart. Flashbacks show how her parents moved from a passionate love to a cold separation, with many factors like class, money, work, alc...

from LaurenAileen

Swift as Desire focuses on Lluvia, a middle aged mother desperately trying to replay her entire life in order to understand her parents' mutual anger for one another. Júbilo, her father, was born with an unmatched ability to communicate and understand through feeling rather than words, but is now...

from JulieQ

An okay novel about love and understanding through communication. Júbilo is a telegraph operator with the ability to read/see and interpret other people's thoughts and feelings. Júbilo realizes that this is a gift tthat will help to make peoples lives better and drastically improves the relations...

from whitreidtan

A tribute to her telegraph operator father, Esquivel's novel about Jubilo, gifted with the ability to hear more than just the words that people say, and his wife and daughter, this doesn't compare to her famous Like Water for Chocolate. Jubilo lies blind, incapacitated by severe Parkinson's Disea...