by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · B de Bolsillo · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788490704745
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«La señora de las especias» is the romantic novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by B de Bolsillo in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Tilo was born in India and runs a spice shop in Oakland, California: she can read her customers' desires and find the remedy that heals body and soul. The arrival of a desperate young man awakens an unexpected love that forces her to choose between eternal life and human love.
Originally published as The Mistress of Spices in 1997, it was translated into thirty languages and adapted into a movie in 2005. Translation by Ángela Pérez Gómez.
For readers of contemporary romantic fiction and magical realism, with a plot that blends Indian tradition with urban life 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.
