The Mistress Of Spices
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize
$33.54
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 April 1998
Summary
Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs an Indian spice shop in Oakland, California. While she dispenses the classic ingredients for curries and kormas, she also helps her customers to gain a more precious commodity- whatever they most desire. For Tilo is a Mistress of Spices, a priestess of the secret, magical powers of spices.
Through those who visit and revisit her shop - Ahuja’s wife, caught in an unhappy, abusive marriage; Jagjit, the victim of racist attacks at school; the noisy bou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552996709 |
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| ISBN-10: | 055299670X |
| Author: | Chitra Divakaruni |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 1998 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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A dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, hopes and expectations, woven with poetry and storyteller magic.
A dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, hopes and expectations, woven with poetry and storyteller magic. – Amy TanI read Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Mistress of Spices and felt excited and empowered by the way she used words * Guardian *An unusual, clever, and often exquisite first novel…The result is rather as if Isabel Allende met Laura Esquivel. * Los Angeles Times *A splendid novel, beautifully conceived and crafted. – Pat ConroyMythical and mystical, Mistress of Spices is reminiscent of fables and fairy tales… . The story Divakaruni tells is transporting, but it is her gift for metaphor that makes this novel live and breathe, its pages as redolent as any freshly ground spice. * Booklist *For ARRANGED MARRIAGE, ‘As irresistible as the impulse which leads her characters to surface to maturity, raising their heads above the floods of silver ignorance’ * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Chitra Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in India and currently lives near San Francisco with her husband and two children. She teaches creative writing at a local college and is the coordinator for a helpline for South Asian women. She is the author of several award-winning volumes of poetry, as well as Arranged Marriage, her acclaimed collection of short stories, a bestseller in America and winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for fiction, an American Book Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction. She is also the author of two novels, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart.
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