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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Sister of My Heart — published 1997 — 16 editions |
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The Mistress of Spices — published 1997 — 27 editions |
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The Palace of Illusions — published 2008 — 17 editions |
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One Amazing Thing — published 2010 — 9 editions |
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Arranged Marriage: Stories — 11 editions |
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The Vine Of Desire — published 2000 — 12 editions |
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Queen of Dreams — published 2004 — 17 editions |
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The Unknown Errors of Our Lives: Stories — published 2001 — 14 editions |
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The Conch Bearer (Brotherhood of the Conch, #1) — 10 editions |
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Neela: Victory Song — published 2002 — 5 editions |
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April 2009,
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
"Impassioned and inventive, Nobel Prize winner Neruda is a poet who stays on your mind. His intense love poems created a bit of a scandal when Twenty Love Poems was published, but in this book he writes out of a different kind of love: love for the ordinary objects of this world, objects we so often take for granted: an artichoke, onions, soap, his own socks." ...More
"Impassioned and inventive, Nobel Prize winner Neruda is a poet who stays on your mind. His intense love poems created a bit of a scandal when Twenty Love Poems was published, but in this book he writes out of a different kind of love: love for the ordinary objects of this world, objects we so often take for granted: an artichoke, onions, soap, his own socks." ...More
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“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
“that's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. no one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart
“Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
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