Rosarita
- Author Anita Desai
- Narrator TBD
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 2 hours
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Generational sagas, Individual artists, art monographs, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, The arts: general issues.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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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
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