Title: prose sweet and spicy as poetry
Review: Divakaruni's prose is as sweet and spicy, as teasing and searing as poetry. Open to almost any page and there is a passage there where the words just seem to dance on your tongue. Oh, to be able to write like this!Behind the obvious story of a woman inhabiting creaky bones and old dry skin, who has magical powers to heal, is an allegory: Of the heavy, sometimes cultural, shackles on women and how the ones with strong enough passions overcome them. In this case, it is forbidden love.I might have given this a five if I had not read another book by the author:The Palace of Illusions: A Novel. To me, even better.
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