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Rosarita : From the three times Booker-shortlisted author

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie

'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie

'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai’s enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian

'Tantalising' - Financial Times

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 Meera Simhan**

'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' - AudioFile Magazine

**Praise for Anita Desai**

Hypnotically beautiful and subtle’ - Financial Times

‘Bewitchingly beautiful’ - The Times

‘Profoundly elegiac’ - New Statesman


Author:

  • Anita Desai

Narrator:

  • Meera Simhan

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 2 h 33 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary fiction

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    Anita Desai

    Anita Desai is a renowned author born and educated in India. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in New York.

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