Lo que yo vi

From the house where he was born, the street games during his childhood, the music that has served as the soundtrack of his life to the social movements and the terrorist attack against the Twin Towers -which he had to witness-, Laura Esquivel, the Mexican author read in the world, teaches us through a colorful mosaic of writings what his eyes saw, the things he has witnessed in his 72 years of life. Divided into thirteen chapters, this text is both a link to history, an ode to Mexican culture, a social chronicle, and a narration of Laura's most personal memories and that of an entire generation. In a constant oscillation between whether everything in the past is better or whether living in the present is what sublimates us as human beings, the author of Como agua para chocolate confirms what she has verified: it is always more beautiful to contemplate with the soul than with the eyes.