Tilo is then trained to walk over fire, and control her senses.
She is mistress of Sesame seeds, and like all others must follow the 3 Dictums to wit: look after desires of others never leave the spice store and never touch anyone else's skin. She is inducted into this group, and named Tilo.
Bandits come to know of her existence, and in their quest for wealth, abduct her, but she manages to escape and lands on a shoreline where a woman is teaching young girls how to be mistress of spices. When she grows up, her parents realize that she is special with the power to find lost things as well as to foresee calamities. 'I felt excited and empowered by the way she used words' NAOMI ALDERMAN, author of THE POWER 'Unusual, clever, and often exquisite' LA TimesA baby girl is born in a destitute family in India, who regard her birth as a dowry-debt. 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.Compelling and lyrical, full of heady scents and with more than a touch of humour, this novel explores the clash between East and West even as it unveils the universal mysteries of the human heart. While she supplies the ingredients for curries and kormas, she also dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice: for Tilo is a Mistress of Spices, a priestess of the secret magical powers of spices.To those who visit her shop, Tilo prescribes coriander for the restoration of sight, chilli for the cleansing of evil, fenugreek for the pain of rejection. woven with poetry and storyteller magic.' AMY TANĪn immigrant from India, runs a spice shop in Oakland, California. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
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