{"product_id":"9781035044436","title":"Rosarita","description":"Author(s): Desai, Anita, \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003eDate of Publication: 04\/07\/2024, \u003cbr\u003ePagination: 112 pages, \u003cbr\u003eSeries: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Picador, \u003cbr\u003e Published By: PAN MACMILLAN                  , \u003cbr\u003eBook Classification: The arts: general issues\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 206 x 137 x 15mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 198g\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781035044436\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 TimesFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**Praise for Anita Desai**Hypnotically beautiful and subtle’ - Financial Times‘Bewitchingly beautiful’ - The Times‘Profoundly elegiac’ - New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46670550925549,"sku":"9781035044436","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781035044436.jpg?v=1730827420","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781035044436","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}