Anita Desai Rosarita Hardback Book

Anita Desai is a magnificent writer Salman RushdieEvery new work from her is a gift Kamila ShamsieRosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai&rsquos enduring genius as a writer The GuardianTantalising Financial TimesFrom three times Bookershortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman&rsquos 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&rsquot 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 rewrite it. Praise for Anita DesaiHypnotically beautiful and subtle&rsquo Financial Times&lsquoBewitchingly beautiful&rsquo The Times&lsquoProfoundly elegiac&rsquo New Statesman | Anita Desai Rosarita Hardback Book