Mistress of Spices, The
Type
Book
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ISBN 13
9780552996709
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
317
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Abstract
Magical spices that could cure and release you from all your woes, worries, pains and innermost desires, and a mistress who does the magic- The Mistress of Spices is a story about an arthritic and old, but immortal woman born in some other time who travels through time and sells her magical spices to strangers. Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the book explores the different Indian spices and lives of immigrants in the United States. The book has been listed on the Los Angeles Best Books of 1997 and also adapted into a Hollywood motion picture with the same name.
Tilo opens a shop in Oakland, California, and sells exotic spices for Indian curries. Her spices not only taste good but also able help people fulfill their desires. She has a mysterious magical power that can only pass through her spices. Through the spices, she dispels her customers' problems and cures their troubles and ailments. The book brings out different characters that represent not only Indians but also different types of people in general. It includes an abused and tortured wife, a taxi driver who has come to the US to live his dreams, a group of talkative and outrageous girls who cannot stand the views of their traditional and narrow-minded parents, and a victim of racism in school.
All these characters come to Tilo, and she gives them her magical, miraculous spices banishing all their agonies. She has got solutions for every other problem. You name it and she is ready with the composition of spices, whether it is turmeric to erase wrinkles or cinnamon to make friends, fenugreek for making a wife desirable to her husband or chillies to get rid of evil. She is famous and her magic works wonders. But one day, a handsome American man visits her shop and stirs her forbidden desires for which she does not have a cure in her spices. The growing unsettled desires are slowly destroying her magical abilities. Will she be able to find a cure for it or will she give in to her feelings?
Tilo opens a shop in Oakland, California, and sells exotic spices for Indian curries. Her spices not only taste good but also able help people fulfill their desires. She has a mysterious magical power that can only pass through her spices. Through the spices, she dispels her customers' problems and cures their troubles and ailments. The book brings out different characters that represent not only Indians but also different types of people in general. It includes an abused and tortured wife, a taxi driver who has come to the US to live his dreams, a group of talkative and outrageous girls who cannot stand the views of their traditional and narrow-minded parents, and a victim of racism in school.
All these characters come to Tilo, and she gives them her magical, miraculous spices banishing all their agonies. She has got solutions for every other problem. You name it and she is ready with the composition of spices, whether it is turmeric to erase wrinkles or cinnamon to make friends, fenugreek for making a wife desirable to her husband or chillies to get rid of evil. She is famous and her magic works wonders. But one day, a handsome American man visits her shop and stirs her forbidden desires for which she does not have a cure in her spices. The growing unsettled desires are slowly destroying her magical abilities. Will she be able to find a cure for it or will she give in to her feelings?
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Compétences : Lire Débutant complet : non
Documents inclus : Texte littéraire original
Descriptif : Merveilleux mélange entre mythe et romance, critique sociale et poésie.
Résumé : Pour les familiers qui fréquentent le lieu clos et magique de son épicerie, Tilo est maîtresse dans l'art ancestral des épices. Elle a reçu ce savoir de " Première Mère " sur une île secrète de sa terre natale, l'Inde, au prix de l'obéissance à des règles strictes et dans le respect du service et de la dévotion : elle possède le don de faire chanter les épices, mais aussi de guérir comme une véritable thérapeute. C'est ainsi que, dans ce quartier d'immigrés d'Oakland en Californie, elle se penche humblement, secrètement, sur les malheurs de ses clients.
Documents inclus : Texte littéraire original
Descriptif : Merveilleux mélange entre mythe et romance, critique sociale et poésie.
Résumé : Pour les familiers qui fréquentent le lieu clos et magique de son épicerie, Tilo est maîtresse dans l'art ancestral des épices. Elle a reçu ce savoir de " Première Mère " sur une île secrète de sa terre natale, l'Inde, au prix de l'obéissance à des règles strictes et dans le respect du service et de la dévotion : elle possède le don de faire chanter les épices, mais aussi de guérir comme une véritable thérapeute. C'est ainsi que, dans ce quartier d'immigrés d'Oakland en Californie, elle se penche humblement, secrètement, sur les malheurs de ses clients.
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