Rosarita by Anita Desai (PRE-ORDER)

DATE OF RELEASE: 10 JUL 2025

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie

'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie

From 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. 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. 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. 

Paperback, 112 pages
Publication: 10 Jul 2025, Picador
ISBN: 9781035044641