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The Mistress of Spices
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
list price $12.95
Doubleday (March 1998)
ISBN: 0385482388
338 pages
average review:
Reviews:
This gets: a from ryan:
A very sensual fantasy-mixed-with-reality story-beautifully written-you can almost smell and taste everything as it is described-a woman comes full circle (through a couple of different lives) to find a bittersweet happiness in a modern day San Francisco Bay Area.
From the back cover:
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.
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