Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Literature & Fiction
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about this author
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 20 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew and Japanese.
She was born in India and lived there until 1976, at which point she left Calcutta and came to the United States. She continued her education in the field of English by receiving a Master’s degree from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
To earn money for her education, she held many odd jobs, including babysitting, selling mer...more
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Sister of My Heart: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.99 — 2,383 ratings — published 1997 11 editions |
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The Mistress of Spices: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.53 — 1,616 ratings — published 1997 23 editions |
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Arranged Marriage: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.77 — 677 ratings — published 1996 10 editions |
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The Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.39 — 592 ratings — published 2000 13 editions |
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The Palace of Illusions: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.75 — 442 ratings — published 2008 11 editions |
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Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.58 — 399 ratings — published 1985 11 editions |
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The Unknown Errors of Our Lives: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.84 — 324 ratings — published 2001 12 editions |
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The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.74 — 330 ratings — published 2003 16 editions |
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Neela: Victory Song by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.90 — 136 ratings — published 2002 5 editions |
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The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.11 — 90 ratings — published 2005 6 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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date: April 13, 2009 03:00PM location: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa, AL, The United States description: Chitra will hold a public talk as well as a Q&A with students who have been reading Mistress of Spices and Palace of Illusions | |||||||||||
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Cutting for Stone (Hardcover) by Abraham Verghese |
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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: A Novel)
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Palace of Illusions: A Novel)
"Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening."
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Palace of Illusions: A Novel)
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Palace of Illusions: A Novel)
"Begitu lah kadang2 bila kita terjun ke jurang kehidupan kita.Tidak ada yang bisa menemani kita,bahkan mereka yang mau mengorbankan hati mereka demi kebahagian kita,juga tidak."
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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