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The Mistress Of Spices
Chitra Divakaruni
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Description for The Mistress Of Spices
Paperback. To those customers who visit her Indian spice shop in Oakland, California, Tilo dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice: coriander for sight, tumeric for wrinkles, and fenugreek to make a rejected wife desirable. However Tilo's powers are conditional - they vanish the moment she falls in love. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
'A dazzling tale... woven with poetry and storyteller magic.' AMY TAN
Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs a spice shop in Oakland, California. While she supplies the ingredients for curries and kormas, she also dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice: for Tilo is a Mistress of Spices, a priestess of the secret magical powers of spices.
To those who visit her shop, Tilo prescribes coriander for the restoration of sight, chilli for the cleansing of evil, fenugreek for the pain of rejection. But when a lonely ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552996709
SKU
V9780552996709
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
About Chitra Divakaruni
Born in India, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Mistress Of Spices
A dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, hopes and expectations, woven with poetry and storyteller magic.
Amy Tan I 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 ... Read more
Amy Tan I 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 ... Read more