Rosarita

Rosarita

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Hardback Published on: 04/07/2024
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Synopsis

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.

From three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and the dark tug of familial and national violence. Most of all it is about a young woman’s determination to forge her own identity.

  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9781035044436
  • Number of pages: 112
  • Weight: 196g
  • Dimensions: 206 x 139 x 14 mm

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Rosarita
Simply marvellous ..
Anita Desai’s writing doesn’t stop amazing me. Her latest book, completed when she was in her 80’s, is nothing if not a wonderful profound examination of a... READ MORE
Emine at Bromley
Rosarita
Very enjoyable
Bonita travels from India to Mexico to practise her Spanish and it is there that she meets a woman who claims to have known her mother. At first Bonita is ... READ MORE
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