A haunting novel from three times Booker Prize-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita takes the reader on a journey of a woman who leads life on her terms and decides to decipher her own path. Bonita, a young and attractive student from India, sits on a park bench in San Miguel, Mexico. She is there to learn Spanish. Alone in a new place, she is basking in the warmth of the city, when suddenly a woman appears in front, saying she is a carbon copy of her mother, who supposedly made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist. Although Bonita replies in the negative, the woman insists. Bonita follows her wondering, whether the stranger is lying or perhaps her mother has a past that she is not privy to. The novel delicately explores the mother-daughter relationship and deals with grief, memory and identity.
Anita Desai is a magnificent writer.” — Salman Rushdie, renowned author
