Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs a spice shop in Oakland, California. While she supplies the ingredients for curries and kormas, she also helps her customers to gain a more precious commodity: whatever they most desire. For Tilo is a Mistress of Spices, a priestess of the secret magical powers of spices. Through those who visit and revisit her shop, she catches glimpses of the life of the local Indian expatriate community. To each, Tilo dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice, for the restoration of sight, the cleansing of evil, the pain of rejection. But when a lonely American ventures into the store, a troubled Tilo cannot find the correct spice, for he arouses in her a forbidden desire - which if she follows will destroy her magical powers.
- ISBN10 055277345X
- ISBN13 9780552773454
- Publish Date 4 April 2006 (first published 1 February 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Black Swan
- Edition Media tie-in
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 336
- Language English