'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie
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.
**Praise for Anita Desai**
Hypnotically beautiful and subtle' - Financial Times
'Bewitchingly beautiful' - The Times
'Profoundly elegiac' - New Statesman
1 of 2 copies available
1 of 2 copies available
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- ISBN: 9781761673931
- File size: 73900 KB
- Duration: 02:33:57
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AudioFile Magazine
With her graceful voice, narrator Meera Simhan shares this short story of self-discovery and secrets. Bonita, a young lady from India who studies Spanish in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, has her world turned upside down when an elderly woman approaches her, claiming to have known her mother. To Bonita's recollection, her mother never traveled to Mexico, let alone studied art, as the woman claims. While Bonita attempts to shrug her off, she can't help but feel drawn to her and what she may learn about her mother. With vocal agility Simhan deftly shifts her tone and accent to realistically narrate diverse characters. Simhan's strength lies in narrating emotionally fraught passages that will move listeners. A.M. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine
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