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| "A wonderful storyteller, Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni combines sensuous, lyrical prose with a fascinating web of plot and
character. A delight for the literary gourmet, and a real page-turner." Cathryn
Pisarski, Editor of Cune Magazine Amy Tan says, "The Mistress of Spices is a dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, hopes and expectations, woven with poetry and storyteller magic." "Poetic, fascinating, dreamlike—after you read Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices, everyday life will never be the same." Ishmael Reed The following is the opening of The Mistress of Spices,I am a Mistress of Spices. I can work the others too. Mineral, metal, earth and sand and stone. The gems with their cold clear light. The liquids that burn their hues into your eyes till you see nothing else. I learned them all on the island. But the spices are my love. I know their origins, and what their colors signify, and their smells. I can call each by the true-name it was given at the first, when earth split like skin and offered it up to the sky. Their heat runs in my blood. From amchur to zafran, they bow to my command. At a whisper they yield up to me their hidden properties, their magic powers. |