{"product_id":"rosarita-1","title":"Rosarita","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman’s determination to forge her own path. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bliss. And then a woman approaches her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Anita Desai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361260396801,"sku":"9781035044641","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/SIMPLEWEBSITEPRODUCTIMAGE-2024-07-03T110616.935.png?v=1720001188","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/rosarita-1","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}