Rosarita by Anita Desai

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.

REVIEWS

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie

'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie

'Rosarita is a transcendent late gift: a testament to Desai’s enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian

'Tantalising' - Financial Times

'Hypnotically beautiful and subtle’ - Financial Times

‘Bewitchingly beautiful’ - The Times

‘Profoundly elegiac’ - New Statesman

Hardback

Language: English
Extent: 112
Publish Date: 4 Jul 2024
ISBN: 9781035044436
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Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador