The mistress of spices
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Edition: 1st Anchor Trade Paperback ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780385482387
Subjects: Spices -- Fiction.; Oakland (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A magic realism tale on Tilo, a woman from India who is given immortality by the gods as long as she remains chaste. In her old age Tilo ends up in California, running a spice shop and helping immigrants. One day enters Raven, a handsome American, and Tilo transforms herself into a beautiful woman for a night of love. Now she must pay the price.