The Mistress of Spices

Fülszöveg

Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story
of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place,
who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress
charged with special powers. Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now
immortal Tilo—in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman—
travels through time to Oakland, California, where she opens a shop
from which she administers spices as curatives to her customers. An
unexpected romance with a handsome stranger eventually forces her to
choose between the supernatural life of an immortal and the vicissitudes
of modern life. Spellbinding and hypnotizing, The Mistress of Spices is a
tale of joy and sorrow and one special woman's magical powers.
"An unusual, clever, and often exquisite first novel The result is rather as if
Isabel Allende met Laura Esquivel." — Los anqeles Times
"Divakaruni s prose is so pungent that it stains the page, yet beneath the sighs... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story
of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place,
who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress
charged with special powers. Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now
immortal Tilo—in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman—
travels through time to Oakland, California, where she opens a shop
from which she administers spices as curatives to her customers. An
unexpected romance with a handsome stranger eventually forces her to
choose between the supernatural life of an immortal and the vicissitudes
of modern life. Spellbinding and hypnotizing, The Mistress of Spices is a
tale of joy and sorrow and one special woman's magical powers.
"An unusual, clever, and often exquisite first novel The result is rather as if
Isabel Allende met Laura Esquivel." — Los anqeles Times
"Divakaruni s prose is so pungent that it stains the page, yet beneath the sighs
and smells of this brand of magic realism she deftly introduces her true theme:
how an ability to accommodate desire enlivens not only the individual heart
but a society cornered by change." —The New yorker
uThis wry, sometimes elliptical novel charms with inventive plot twists."
—People
"The Mistress of Spices is a dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, hopes
and expectations, woven with poetry and storyteller magic." —Amy Tan
"A marvelous combination of myth and romance."
—San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle
"A splendid novel, beautifully conceived and crafted." —Pat conroy Vissza