Rosarita: From the three times Booker-shortlisted author

'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 b liss. 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' - The Times 'Profoundly elegiac' - New Statesman EAN: 9781035044641 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 10.07.2025 Autoren: Desai, Anita Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 80 Themenüberschrift: FICTION / Literary Keyword: art; artist; memory; grief; family; secrets; india; mexico; journey; home; identity; sense of place; national violence; sense of self; coming of age; motherhood; mothers; daughters; parents; mystery; marriage; family secrets Fachschema: Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Indien / Roman, Erzählung~Generationenromane - Familiensagas Fachkategorie: Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik~Belletristik: Besonderheiten Altersempfehlung / Lesealter: 18 ab Alter: 18 Imprint-Titels: Picador Länge: 197 mm Breite: 130 mm Höhe: 10 mm