{"product_id":"anitadesairosarita","title":"Anita Desai - Rosarita","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Anita Desai. Themes include Fiction, Literary, Family Life, Marriage \u0026amp; Divorce, Cultural Heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Praise for Anita Desai**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHypnotically beautiful and subtle’ - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Bewitchingly beautiful’ - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Profoundly elegiac’ - \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58002869617014,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9781761564277.jpg?v=1780401810","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/anitadesairosarita","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}