{"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\u003e is 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\u003e From three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, \u003ci\u003eRosarita\u003c\/i\u003e is 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\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e**Praise for Anita Desai**\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hypnotically 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":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925864906949,"sku":"","price":33.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Rosarita.jpg?v=1722978527","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/rosarita","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}