When her womanizing husband's spendthrift ways force her to to leave her native Colombia to find work in Madrid, Teodora Vencejos takes a job with master chef Dr. Amiel, who gives her a sensuous education in both the culinary and erotic arts.
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With boisterous, earthy humor and almost tactile prose, Colombian novelist Buitrago tells a bawdy fairy tale about a woman's sexual awakening. At the story's center is Teodora Vencejos, a young heiress blinded by her love for the scoundrel Don Galaor Ucros-whom she ultimately marries, despite his habit of pursuing romantic affairs right before her eyes. When Galaor fritters away all of her money, Teodora must move from her home village on Colombia's Caribbean coast to Madrid, where she takes a job with Dr. Amiel, a highly successful provisioner of sexually "stimulating foodstuffs." Buitrago has great fun describing Amiel's culinary concoctions (e.g., "The ingredients, cleverly arranged, formed a voluptuous, brazen nymph whose breasts were two large jugs filled with prawns and oysters au vin.... Guests at the stag party for a publisher of feminist literature would wolf it down to the last bite." Dr. Amiel keeps Teodora busy not only with fun in the kitchen but also with constant demands for sex and earnest proclamations of his love for her. Still, Teodora pines for Galaor; when she finally returns to her village only to discover her husband fat, unattractive and in bed with her rival, she falls into a deep sleep that can't be broken except by "a passionate kiss"-an awakening that reveals a feminist twist. If the nonlinear narrative is distracting, playful and mildly adventurous readers should enjoy surrendering their demands for order as they succumb to the big-hearted pleasures of this sensuous divertissement. U.K. and first serial and translation rights in Spain and Mexico: HarperCollins; dramatic and translation rights (excluding Spanish in Spain and Mexico): Camilo Calderone.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish
Original Language: Spanish
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, not so great translation,
This review is from: Senora Honeycomb: A Novel (Hardcover)
This is a wonderfully written novel. I spent the past year writing about this book for my senior thesis, so I pretty much know it inside out. The language is beautiful and Buitrago is a master a combining wit, parody, dark comedy, and sexual longing into one coherent and compelling narrative. However, I don't think that this translation does it justice. The language is clunky, and loses a lot of the brilliance and tone that make the original so special. Even the English title is a poor choice in my opinion (I would have chosen the more literal and more sensual "The Woman of Honey"). Overall, it's a beautiful novel, but I would suggest reading it the original Spanish if possible (Spanish title - "Señora de la miel").
5.0 out of 5 stars
Erotic and exotic!,
By m.kaiser@excite.com (GJ, Colorado) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Senora Honeycomb: A Novel (Hardcover)
In the true footsteps of "Like Water For Chocolate", Fanny Buitrago has brought forth another erotic Latin book that has to do with deceit, food, sex, and human emotions. I thought this story was excellent in the way it was told, and I do encourage Ms. Buitrago to write more like it!
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