{"product_id":"9781035044436","title":"Rosarita","description":"Author: Anita Desai\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035044436\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 10 Dec 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 112\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, \u003ci\u003eRosarita \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman’s determination to forge her own path.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e**Praise for Anita Desai**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e‘The language is hypnotically beautiful and subtle and the characterisation quietly precise’ - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e‘Bewitchingly beautiful’ - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e‘Profoundly elegiac’ - \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798797635742,"sku":"TLD-9781035044436","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781035044436.jpg?v=1778119287","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781035044436","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}