Rosarita

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'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie

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**

'The language is hypnotically beautiful and subtle and the characterisation quietly precise' - Financial Times

'Bewitchingly beautiful' - The Times

'Profoundly elegiac' - New Statesman

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781035044436
Published: July 2024

Number of pages: 112
Width: 139 mm
Height: 206 mm
Depth: 14 mm

Publisher: Pan Macmillan