Rosarita

A young student sits on a bench in a jardin in San Miguel. Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Spanish. She is alone, somewhere she has never been and 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. From three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and things unspoken. It is about mothers and marriage, about art and self-expression and the dark tug of familial and national violence, and about a young woman''s determination to forge her own identity.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Desai, Desai Anita
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2024
• EAN: 9781035044436
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3504443-6
• No. of pages: 95
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 205 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Mexico, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Hispanic & Latino, India, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, San Miguel de Allende, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Individual artists, art monographs, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / Own Voices, FICTION / World Literature / India / 21st Century, FICTION / World Literature / India / 20th Century, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), The arts: general topics, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages