Rosarita

From Three Times Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author Anita Desai, Rosarita Is A Beautiful, Haunting Novel That Explores Memory, Grief, Isolation, And A Young Woman’S Determination To Forge Her Own Path.Bonita, 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.And 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.Anita Desai Is A Magnificent Writer Salman Rushdieto Compare Anita Desais Fiction With That Of Chekhov Or The Short Stories Of Tolstoy Is Not Extravagant; It Is Entirely Warranted Irish Times