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Anita Desai Has Put Down Roots, but Her Work Ranges Widely
7 January 2025 at 03:14
Her new novella, “Rosarita,” takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, “I feel utterly at home there.”
Anita Desai, the daughter of a Bengali father and German mother, has often been shadowed by a sense of foreignness and dislocation.
© Erik Tanner for The New York Times
