Rosarita

Anita Desai

£12.99

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.

Hardback

Fiction > General

ISBN: 9781035044436

Description

 

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.

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

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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 25 × 17 × 8 cm