Oleander Girl Critical Analysis

mother, wife, sister and lastly yet considerable woman as a human being not just second sex or sex object. She seeks cynical about customs and tradition, yet she finds out in their legacy the keys for the longings and needs of women in current time. She is modernist writer since her writing highlights the idea of the inconsequential women with an endocentric set up ,pervasive in the non first world and first world .In her works ,insights take preference over the desire of technique. She recognises the paradoxes in a given area and also pays an ideological, cultural, philosophical, artistic struggle. In this sense, the author hypothesizes the sign of modernism, ego, freedom, love, sex, friendship, betrayal, and sacrifice as challenging …show more content…
Her theatrical, often surprising journey will ultimately force her into the most difficult decision of her life. ‘With flawless narrative instinct and a boundless sympathy for her irrepressible characters, in Oleander Girl’’ Divakaruni brings us a perfect treat of a novel moving, wise, and memorable. As The Wall Street Journal raves, “Divakaruni emphasize the liberating force of storytelling with lavish prose. . . . She defies categorization.” An archetypal work of magical realism, this bestselling novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman from another time who has a gift for the spiritual art of spices. Now eternal, and living in the twisted and painful body of an old woman, Tilo has set up shop in Oakland, California, where she administer curatives to her patrons. But when she's surprised by an unpredicted romance with a handsome stranger, she must choose between eternal life and the vicissitudes of modern society. Fascinating and hypnotize, The Mistress of Spices is a tale of joy, sorrow, and one special woman's supernatural