- East Indians, Fiction, Spices, Women immigrants
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.
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Earnest, grave, effortless and intimate.
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- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Black Swan, Diana Verlag, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780552996709
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