{"product_id":"9781035044436","title":"Rosarita","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Desai, Anita \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eThe arts: general issues\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 July 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 112 pages\u003cbr\u003e206 x 137 x 15 | 198g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom 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":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45668027891971,"sku":"9781035044436","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781035044436.jpg?v=1731328740","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781035044436","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}