Kartography
A Novel
Kamila Shamsie
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Kartography
A Novel
Kamila Shamsie
About This Book
A "gorgeous novel" of two upper-class Pakistani families and the complicated love that develops between their children, by the author of Home Fire ( Los Angeles Times ). Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to one another's partners, until they rematched in what they call "the fiancĂ©e swap." But as adolescence distances the friends, Karim takes refuge in maps while Raheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. What she uncovers reveals not just a family's turbulent history, but also a country'sâand now a grown-up Raheen and Karim are caught between strained friendship and fated love. A love story with a family mystery at its heart, from an author named as one of the Orange Prize's "21 Writers for the 21st Century, " Kartography transports readers to a world not often seen in fiction: vibrant, dangerous, sensuous Pakistan. "[Shamsie] has been described as a young Anita Desai, and her third book, about childhood, love, life and high society in Karachi during the turbulent 1990s, is worth all the prepublication fuss." â Harper's Bazaar "[Shamsie] packs her story with the playful evidence of her high-flying intelligence." â San Francisco Chronicle "E. M. Forster's famous pleaâ'only connect'âreverberates passionately throughout this forceful tale of childhood, love and the power of story-telling." â The Independent (UK) "Deftly woven, provocative... Shamsie's blistering humor and ear for dialogue scorches through [a] whirl of whiskey and witticisms." â The Observer (UK) "A shimmering, quick-witted lament and love story... Rich in emotional coloratura and wordplay." â Publishers Weekly, starred review "Its artful uncovering of how people hide from themselves and one another... echoes Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things." â Kirkus Reviews