Rosarita: From the three times Booker-shortlisted author

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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 ‘Bewitchingly beautiful’ – The Times ‘Profoundly elegiac’ – New Statesman

• Author: Anita Desai
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Published: 2024-07-04
• Pages: 64
• ISBN-13: 9781035044627