{"product_id":"rosarita","title":"Rosarita","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eRosarita \u003c\/i\u003eis transcendent . . . a testament to Desai's enduring genius as a writer' - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tantalising' - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, \u003ci\u003eRosarita \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman's determination to forge her own path.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Anita Desai \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Bewitchingly beautiful' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Profoundly elegiac' - \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 112 pages | Published July 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63986279579997,"sku":"9781035044641","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/rosarita","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}