{"product_id":"rosarita-9789361134227","title":"Rosarita","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Desai, Anita\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pan Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pan Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom three times Booker Prize-shortlisted author Anita Desai, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRosarita\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, isolation, and a young woman’s determination to forge her own path.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBonita, a young student from India, sits on a park bench in San Miguel, Mexico – where she has arrived to learn Spanish. She is alone in this place to which she has no connection. It feels like bliss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd then a woman approaches her, claiming to recognize Bonita, because she is the spitting image of her mother who supposedly made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist. No, says Bonita, my mother did not 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, as the past threatens to flood the present, or, perhaps, even rewrite it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSALMAN RUSHDIE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'To compare Anita Desai's fiction with that of Chekhov or the short stories of Tolstoy is not extravagant; it is entirely warranted' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45675069341847,"sku":"9789361134227","price":290.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789361134227.webp?v=1769295484","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rosarita-9789361134227","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}