PublishedPicador, November 2024 |
ISBN9781035044436 |
FormatHardcover, 112 pages |
Dimensions20.6cm × 13.9cm × 1.4cm |
'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
