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Hardback · Pan Macmillan · First edition · First printing
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Last confirmed 15 Jul 2026
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Written by Anita Desai
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.
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Hardback · Pan Macmillan · First edition · First printing
First Edition, First Printing, Signed
ISBN 9781035044436
Last confirmed 15 Jul 2026
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Hardback · Picador · First edition · First printing
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ISBN 9781035044436
Last confirmed 15 Jul 2026
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