by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552996709
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«The Mistress of Spices» is the magic realism novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by Black Swan in paperback (317 pages, in English).
Tilo, an Indian immigrant, runs a spice shop in Oakland, California. As the Mistress of Spices, she offers magical remedies and grants her customers their deepest wishes. An American customer awakens in her a forbidden desire that endangers her powers and forces her to choose between the supernatural and the modern world.
Longlisted for the Orange Prize in 1997 and winner of the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award in 1998. The novel was adapted into film.
For readers of magic realism, romantic fiction, and narratives about immigration and cultural identity, with an Indian protagonist in Oakland.
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.
