by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466300377
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«La señora de las especias» is a magical realism novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Suma de Letras, paperback, 370 pages, in Spanish).
Tilo, initiated into the ancestral knowledge of spices, runs a small shop in Oakland; with each spice she tends to her customers' bodies and emotions. Her supernatural life is shaken when she meets a man who awakens her feelings and forces her to choose between her powers and an ordinary existence.
The work was originally published in English as The Mistress of Spices in 1997; it was nominated for the Orange Prize and won the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award.
Suitable for readers of magical realism, romance, and contemporary fiction with an interest in the Indian experience in the United States.
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.
