Anita Desai Rosarita review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de roman over Mexico van de Indiase schrijfster. Op 7 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner de nieuwe roman van de uit India afkomstige schrijfster Anita Desai. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Anita Desai Rosarita review, recensie en informatie
- “Evocative… subtle and enigmatic… Desai revels in equivocation and possibility, embracing the ambiguity of memory itself to tell a shimmering, sometimes fevered tale in which a mother and daughter are pulled apart and fused together. In Rosarita, the known rubs up against the unknown, and a kaleidoscopic network of possible lives are lost and found in barely 100 pages.” (Financial Times)
- “A novel about storytelling, history and belonging. It is about the desire to know one’s forebears, and therefore gain a greater insight into oneself…a beautiful rejoinder to the glib and common-place phrase one hears far too much today: it is what it is…There is a dreamy and wistful mood to this very short gem, lulling in its revelations and comforting in its gentle appeal. A wonder of a novel.” (Irish Independent)
- “If you’ve never read anything by Anita Desai, you’re out of excuses. One of India’s most celebrated writers, she’s been publishing for almost 50 years and come close to winning the Booker Prize three times…a world-class writer… Desai takes a certain perverse pleasure in exposing the self-pity of mediocre people; if Anita Brookner were a little meaner, she might write like this.” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post)
Rosarita
- Auteur: Anita Desai (India)
- Soort boek: Indiase roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Scribner
- Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
- Omvang: 112 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 22.00 / $ 10,99 / $ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Anita Desai
An exquisitely written stunning exploration of love, place, memory, history, and the secrets between a mother and her daughter.
Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardin de San Miguel, Mexico, basking in the park’s lush beauty, when she slowly becomes aware that she is being watched. An elderly woman approaches her, claiming that she knew Bonita’s mother—that they had been friends when Bonita’s mother had lived in Mexico as a talented young artist. Bonita tells the stranger that she must be mistaken; her mother was not a painter and had never travelled to Mexico. Though the stranger leaves, Bonita cannot shake the feeling that she is being followed.
Days later, haunted by the encounter, Bonita seeks out the woman, whom she calls The Trickster, and follows her on a tour of what may, or may not, have been her mother’s past. As a series of mysterious events brilliantly unfold, Bonita is unable to escape The Trickster’s presence, as she is forced to confront questions of truth and identity, and specters of familial and national violence.
A masterpiece of storytelling from a gifted writer, Rosarita is a profound mediation on mothers and marriage, art and self-expression, and how the traumas from the past can impact future generations.
Anita Desai was born 24 june 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She is a renowned author born and educated in India. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting. 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. She lives in New York.
