Chitra Divakaruni

The Mistress of Spices

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

To those customers who visit her Indian spice shop in Oakland, California, Tilo dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice: coriander for sight, tumeric for wrinkles, and fenugreek to make a rejected wife desirable. However Tilo's powers are conditional - they vanish the moment she falls in love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Swan / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 503827
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 317
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780552996709
• ISBN-10: 055299670X
• Artikelnr.: 07224060

Autorenporträt

Born in India, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni lives near San Francisco with her husband and two children. She teaches creative writing at a local college, and is the coordinator for a helpline for South Asian women. She is the author of several award-winning volumes of poetry, as well as Arranged Marriage, her acclaimed collection of short stories, a bestseller in America and winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for fiction, an American Book Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction. She is also the author of two novels, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart.

Rezensionen

A dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, hopes and expectations, woven with poetry and storyteller magic. Amy Tan