by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440677679
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«La señora de las especias» is the magical realism novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by Ediciones B in paperback (317 pages, in Spanish).
Tilo, born in India, runs a spice shop in Oakland and possesses a gift: perceiving the longings of those who visit her and choosing the exact spice to ease their ailments, including those of the heart. Her power demands strict rules, but the arrival of love will test everything she thought she knew.
Translation by Ángela Pérez. Original title: The Mistress of Spices; the original English edition appeared in 1997.
For readers of magical realism and fiction set in India, with a female protagonist and an emigration backdrop.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, won an American Book Award in 1996. Two of her novels, as well as a short story were adapted into films.
