by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422669784
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«La señora de las especias» is the magic realism novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by FisicalBook in hardcover (346 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Tilo, an Indian woman who runs a spice shop in Oakland, California. She knows the healing properties of her spices and uses them to help her customers with their problems, but she is bound by rules linked to her gift. An unexpected encounter calls her identity and destiny into question.
The original work in English is The Mistress of Spices; the Spanish translation is by Ángela Pérez and the edition was published in 1998.
For readers of magic realism and immigration stories, with a romantic subplot and setting in an Indian community in California.
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.
