Much like her previous novel, Like Water For Chocolate, The Law of Love has a decidedly fantastic bent, while remaining rooted in concepts that are true in the here-and-now. So I had to buy it, if only for the way it pushed those preconceived notions of what a book "should" be right out the window. To use a Web designer's phrase, it's a fully-integrated, multimedia "experience." The blurb on the back cover (as blurbs often do), made the story sound contrived and not at all what I'd be looking for in a read, but then I noticed - not only are you buying the novel, but a graphic novel contained inside it, and a music CD with tracks corresponding to an icon in the book's text so you're hearing what the characters are hearing. This is what initially attracted me about Laura Esquivel's newest work, The Law Of Love. there's something that grabs me about a piece of art that takes the preconceived notions of what "a painting" or "a book" or "a play" should be. Whether that's a Web page that includes revolutionary interactivity, a play that incorporates the audience, or a painting that plays music. I've always been a fan of pushing the boundaries of the accepted in art.
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