Rosarita: From the three times Booker-shortlisted author

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie<BR>'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie<BR>'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai's enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian<BR>'Tantalising' - Financial Times<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>A young student sits on a bench in a park in San Miguel, Mexico. Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Sp anish. She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bliss.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Praise for Anita Desai <BR><BR>'Bewitchingly beautiful' - The Times<BR>'Profoundly elegiac' - New Statesman