Rosarita

By: Anita Desai

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Hardcover | 10 December 2024

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112 Pages

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13.8 x 20.8 x 1.5

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''Anita Desai is a magnificent writer'' - Salman Rushdie
''Every new work from her is a gift'' - Kamila Shamsie
''Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai's enduring genius as a writer'' - The Guardian
''Tantalising'' - Financial Times

From three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman's determination to forge her own path.

A young student sits on a bench in a park in San Miguel, Mexico. Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Spanish. She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bliss.

And then a woman approaches her. The woman claims to recognize Bonita because she is the spitting image of her mother, who made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist. No, says Bonita, my mother didn't paint. She never travelled to Mexico. But this strange woman insists, and so Bonita follows her. Into a story where Bonita and her mother will move apart and come together, and where the past threatens to flood the present, or re-write it.

**Praise for Anita Desai**

Hypnotically beautiful and subtle' - Financial Times
'Bewitchingly beautiful' - The Times
'Profoundly elegiac' - New Statesman

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