{"product_id":"rosarita-1","title":"Rosarita (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e''Anita Desai is a magnificent writer'' - Salman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e''Every new work from her is a gift'' - Kamila Shamsie\u003cbr\u003e''Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai’s enduring genius as a writer'' - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e''Tantalising'' - Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHypnotically beautiful and subtle’ - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e‘Bewitchingly beautiful’ - The Times\u003cbr\u003e‘Profoundly elegiac’ - New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201226682592,"sku":"9781035044641","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9781035044641.jpg?v=1764858877","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/rosarita-1","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}