''Anita Desai is a magnificent writer'' - Salman Rushdie
''Every new work from her is a gift'' - Kamila Shamsie
''Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai-s enduring genius as a writer'' - The Guardian
''Tantalising'' - Financial Times
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. Int
