by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · Doubleday · tapa dura · ISBN 9780385482370
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«The Mistress of Spices» is the magic realism novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by Doubleday in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
Tilo, keeper of the powers of spices, runs a shop in Oakland (California) where she helps the Indian community, but her duty to stay detached clashes with her involvement with customers and with Raven, an American she cannot read, and forces her to choose between immortality and real life.
First novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, nominated for the Orange Prize in 1997 and winner of the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award in 1998.
For readers of magic realism and narratives about the Indian diaspora 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.
