Rosarita
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- Synopsis
- 'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom 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
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 112 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781035044627
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781035044436, 9781035044641
- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan
- Date of Addition:
- 07/03/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Anita Desai
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Reading Age:
- 18 and up
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.