"Rosarita" is the latest novel from the three-time Booker finalist Anita Desai, who has been writing acclaimed novels for six decades. She joins us now from Cold Springs, New York. Thank you so ...

All of that fits perfectly with Anita Desai’s elusive novella “Rosarita,” in which the main character, a woman from India named Bonita, learns she can’t even be sure of her mother’s name.

Anita Desai, Author, Ann Close, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-394-57229-1 This ninth novel by Desai ( Clear Light of Day ; Games at Twilight ), a professor at Mount Holyoke ...

NPR'S Scott Simon speaks with novelist, Anita Desai, about her new book, "Rosarita," and about the dual lives women can lead.