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Informationen zum Autor Born in India! Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni lives near San Francisco with her husband and two children. She teaches creative writing at a local college! and is the coordinator for a helpline for South Asian women. She is the author of several award-winning volumes of poetry! as well as Arranged Marriage! her acclaimed collection of short stories! a bestseller in America and winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for fiction! an American Book Award! and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction. She is also the author of two novels! The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart. Zusammenfassung Born in a big old Calcutta house on the same night, the wild, tragic night their fathers were both mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins. Closer even than sisters, they share clothes, possessions, worries, dreams - and three mothers, who preside over the matriarchal Chatterjee household. But when Sudha discovers a terrible secret about their past, their mutual loyalty is sorely tested. A family crisis forces the mothers to start the serious business of arranging the girls' marriages, and the inseparable pair are torn apart. Sudha moves to her new family'as home in rural Bengal, while Anju joins her immigrant husband in California. But nothing has prepared them for the pain, aswell as the joy, that each will have to face in her new life. Rooted in Indian folklore and steeped in the mysticism of ancient tales, this bright, jewel-like novel shines its light on the bonds of family, on love and loss, against the realities of traditional arranged marriages, and the adjustments needed for modern life.
