Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-49729-9
This exquisitely rendered tale of passion, jealousy and redemption continues the extraordinary relationship between Anjou and Sudha, the two exceptional women at the heart of Divakaruni's praised Sister of My Heart. The two cousins have traveled
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author . Roaring Brook/Porte $16.96 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1935-1
Divakaruni (The Mistress of Spices) makes her children's book debut with this exotic novel, in which fantasy threads intertwine with spiritual teachings. While 12-year-old Anand is at work one day at a tea stall in Kolkata, India, he offers a...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author . Doubleday $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-50682-3
Spiked with elements of mystery, suspense and the supernatural, Divakaruni's sixth novel is a pleasantly atypical tale of self-discovery. Rakhi, a single mother and struggling artist living in Berkeley, Calif., has always been vaguely aware of...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author . S&S/Aladdin $5.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-689-87242-6
A 12-year-old living in India offers a beggar his ration of tea and pooris and finds himself on a mission to return a sacred conch shell to a Himalayan community of Magic Healers. In a starred review, PW
called this "an exotic novel in which...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author . Roaring Brook/Porter $16.95 (329p) ISBN 978-1-59643-067-9
Fans of The Conch Bearer
will be every bit as riveted to this sequel, which opens in the Silver Valley of the Himalayas, where Anand and Nisha have begun their studies to become a Master Healer like their friend and mentor, Abhaydatta. Just when...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author . Hyperion/Voice $23.99 (220p) ISBN 978-1-4013-4099-5
In a soggy treatment of catastrophe and enlightenment, Divakaruni (The Mistress of Spices
) traps a group of nine diverse people in the basement of an Indian consulate in an unidentified American city after an earthquake. Two are émigré
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author Anchor Books $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-48350-6
Poet Divakaruni, who was born in India and now teaches in America, makes her fiction debut with 11 stories about transformation and immigration. (June)
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author Anchor Books $13.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-385-48854-9
An abusive father (""the gorilla with iron fingers"") and the suicide of a mother who puts the poet to bed and locks her in ""so I would not be the first to discover her body hanging from the ceiling"" open this third collection from the poet and...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author Doubleday Books $183.6 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-48789-4
Carving a fresh niche in the genre of literary romance, Divakaruni, author of the praised short-story collection Arranged Marriage (1995), has written an ambitious first novel that injects magic and mysticism into a contemporary urban setting. The...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-48950-8
Like the old tales of India that are filled with emotional filigree and flowery prose, Divakaruni's (The Mistress of Spices) latest work is a masterful allegory of unfulfilled desire and sacrificial love. It is also an intricate modern drama in...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-49727-5
The female protagonists of eight of the nine stories in Divakaruni's sensuously evocative new collection are caught between the beliefs and traditions of their Indian heritage and those of their, or their children's, new homeland, America. Nowhere...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Free Press, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9565-6
An engaged woman in a traditional Indian family discovers harrowing secrets about her birth parents in the latest from Divakaruni (after 2010's One Amazing Thing). As her mother died in childbirth, Korobi Roy was raised by her grandparents, who led...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, illus. by Susy Pilgrim Waters. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-378-6
Little Red Riding Hood has only a wolf to contend with, but Grandma lives in India, where the forest hides a fox, a bear, and a tiger. Grandma talks the three predators out of eating her during her first trip (“I’ll be a lot fatter on my way back...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author, Alan Cumming, Read by, Alan Cumming, Read by , read by Alan Cumming. Listening Library $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-1959-1
Though he sounds a trifle over-eager at first, giving descriptions a perhaps too enthusiastic oomph, Cumming soon hits his stride as narrator of this fantasy-laced story about the unusual adventures of an Indian boy. Twelve-year-old Anand, who works
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-385-51599-3
Recasting the Indian epic Mahabharata
from the perspective of Princess Panchaali, veteran novelist Divakaruni (Queen of Dream
) offers a vivid and inventive companion to the renowned poem. Born from fire and marked with the prophecy that she will...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Morrow, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-314238-1
Divakaruni (The Last Queen) captures the upheaval and devastation of the partition of British India in this dazzling tale of three Hindu sisters caught up in the violent events. In 1947, Deepa, Priya, and Jamini Ganguly live with their father, Baba,
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