It was adapted into a major Hollywood movie of the same name, in 2005, starring Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott.Ĭhitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American novelist and poet based in the US. The Mistress of Spices was very well received, featuring on the Los Angeles Times Best Books list in 1997, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Unable to find the appropriate spice to help him, she realises that her strong feelings would ultimately destroy her magical powers. One day, a handsome American walks into her shop, and stirs within her, a sea of forbidden desires. Some of her remedies are turmeric for erasing wrinkles, fenugreek for making a woman desirable to her husband, cinnamon for making friends, chillies for getting rid of evil, and so on. Tilo dispels her wisdom along with her spices to her customers, curing them of their ailments and troubles. Ahuja, a battered and abused wife, Haroun, a taxi driver who came to America to live the American dream, the garrulous bunch of girls who rebel against their narrow-minded traditional Indian parents, and Jagjit, who faces vicious attacks of racism in school, take us through the kaleidoscopic experiences of Indian immigrant life in the United States.
However, she possesses mysterious healing powers that enable her to help people achieve their innermost desires, through the magic of her spices. Set in California, The Mistress Of Spices revolves around Tilo, an Indian immigrant running a store that sells exotic spices to customers for their curries.
Adjudged the Seattle Times best paperbacks of 1998, The Mistress Of Spices tells the story of Tilo, an Indian immigrant running an Indian spice shop in Oakland, who uses her inborn gift to help people through the mystical healing powers of her spices, and what happens when those powers are challenged when she falls in love with an American stranger.
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