Anita Desai’s newest offering Rosarita is a dreamy and wistful tale of a matriarchal haunting in Mexico
Fiction
The writer Anita Desai in New York. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan
Rosarita is a mysterious new novel by three-time Booker-shortlisted octogenarian, Indian writer Anita Desai.
It opens in San Miguel de Allende, a colonial-era city in Mexico’s central highlands, known for its arts scene, with a young woman taking in the sunshine while newspaper sellers and balloon vendors do their trade.
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