Rosarita

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'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie 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 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. **Praise for Anita Desai** 'The language is hypnotically beautiful and subtle and the characterisation quietly precise' - Financial Times 'Bewitchingly beautiful' - The Times 'Profoundly elegiac' - New Statesman

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I cant wait for the new Anita Desai novel, Rosarita. Shes a writer Ive loved since my adolescence, whose sharp observations and elegant sentences I admire increasingly as the years go on. Every new work from her is a gift. -- Kamila Shamsie, Stylist Summer Reads
Her writing is sensuous, radical and uncannily perceptive * The Times *
To compare Anita Desai's fiction with that of Chekhov or the short stories of Tolstoy is not extravagant; it is entirely warranted * Irish Times *
Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture -- Alison Lurie
All her stories are full of a confidence in human nature that is a rarity and a pleasure to encounter * The Spectator *
Desai has a wicked, subtle humour...and her characters are beautifully described... Her writing is polished and mature, with a wit she cleverly underplays * Daily Telegraph *
One of the most gifted of contemporary Indian writers * New Yorker *
Anita Desai writes exquisitely * Scotsman *
She has the ability to shape and refine a piece of work of her own intense imagination into an independent work of art * The Times *

Author Bio

Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature.