{"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\u003e**Praise for Anita Desai**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHypnotically beautiful and subtle’ - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395510804862,"sku":"NW9781035044641","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781035044641.jpg?v=1778605508","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/rosarita","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}