Rosarita

<p><b>'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie<br><br>From three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, <i>Rosarita </i>is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman&rsquo;s determination to forge her own path.</b><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 Spanish. 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&rsquo;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><b>**Praise for Anita Desai**<br><br>&lsquo;The language is hypnotically beautiful and subtle and the characterisation quietly precise&rsquo; - <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>&lsquo;Bewitchingly beautiful&rsquo; - <i>The Times</i><br><br>&lsquo;Profoundly elegiac&rsquo; - <i>New Statesman</i></b></p>