Rosarita by Anita Desai

Rosarita by Anita Desai'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' Kamila Shamsie'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desais enduring genius as a writer' The Guardian'Tantalising' Financial TimesFrom three times Booker shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young womans determination to forge her own path. A young student sits on a bench in a park in San

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as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword

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Against an epic fantasy backdrop teeming with all your favourite mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens

emotionally-honest prose

Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom

determined to live day to day and not think too much about either the future or the past

heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction

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