Rosarita

''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

Product details

• Authors: Anita Desai, Desai Anita
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9781035044641
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3504464-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, The arts: general issues, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Asian / Indian & South Asian, 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, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), The arts: general topics, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages