suggested reading for the month of: February
Dear readers,
as I had predicted in the previous post on tips for reading, this has been (and continues to be ...) a tremendous period ... I had to do in the studio and I could not start any book that was not a manual or at least a text of study.
In December I have not really touched any books that I can talk to you.
In January I read just one, but I suggest you read if you have not already done so. It is indeed a very famous text, from which they made into a film, which surely will happen to you at least heard of.
The Mistress of Spices by Chitra B. Divakaruni
Plot
An old Indian lady in a little shop in Oakland, California, with his gnarled hands touching dust and seeds, leaves and berries, looking for the most exquisite taste or spell more subtle. E 'Tilo, the Mistress of Spices. His story begins in a remote Indian village where the pirates kidnap, attracted by its arcane and mysterious powers to bring on an island haunted and beautiful. There Tilo learns the magic of spices that will allow America to help those who, like her, has left India behind. In the workshop of the Sorceress, therefore, parade lives and desires, hopes and hardships of immigrants, and spices, with their thousand tiny eyes peering every gesture of their lord.
My Remarks to the book:
be read slowly and savor
This is a magical story. A fairy tale.
A woman in India lands in America. Must devote his life as a Mistress of spices and spices, before you leave, takes a set of rules. What if she will plan, plan to break them out of love for a man? The spices that are in the book living elements, trampling, will the war? I'll let you discover it by reading ...
This is a novel that constantly evokes the fabulous: talk of occult powers, pirates and mysterious island.
The spices are a guideline to the narrative: thanks to their particular uses will introduce characters and situations.
The reader will also deal with immigration issues. Men and women of India who came to America with dreams and hopes. A child victim of racism and forced a bad company for not being afraid.
A simple story, very linear. Written with an exquisite style: there is one word put there by chance. The writer seems to write a musical score, seems to follow a melody that makes' background. Each word is music.
reading was also accompanied by a slight sense of melancholy: the transience of things you can imagine even the power, but not love. Love in the highest sense of the word, addressed to all those around us and need our help. What is eternal and timeless.
Recommended!
About the film
In 2005 it was made into a film, directed by Paul Mayeda Berges.
Apart from a few discordant elements, the film captures the essence of the book.
has also another advantage: less inevitably put on the table, in the end we have unresolved questions as is the case with the book. There is one thing that the author should have explained better ... That's why I put 3 stars aNobiane, instead of 4. Also recommended
the movie!
Title: The Mistress of Spices
Original title: Mistress of Spices
Country : Gran Bretagna
Genere : Commedia
Durata : 96 min
Anno di produzione : 2005
Regia : Paul Mayeda Berges
La maga delle spezie ***(3 stelline aNobiane)
Fine ^_^
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