{"product_id":"rosarita-anita-desai","title":"Rosarita (Anita Desai)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\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\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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBorn and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of \u003ci\u003eRosarita\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels \u003ci\u003eClear Light of Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Custody\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFasting, Feasting\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 112 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65823119802717,"sku":"K098241136","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9824113600001A.jpg?v=1788648615","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/rosarita-anita-desai","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}