Rosarita

Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie'Rosaritaand is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai's enduring genius as a writer' -and The Guardian'Tantalising' -and Financial TimesFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai,and Rosaritaand 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 Bewitchingly beautiful' -and The Times Profoundly elegiac' -and New Statesman

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Liberty Books

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Fiction