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A boisterous tribute to her home town that crackles with the chaos of Pakistani political life - The Times

Deftly woven and provocative ... Shamsie s blistering humour and ear for dialogue scorches through their whirl of whisky and witticisms - Observer

You will notice very quickly that you re reading a book by someone who can write . Above all, Kartography is a love story. And if you re not sniffling by, or in fact on, page 113, you re reading the wrong book - Guardian
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BY THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE
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Soul mates from birth, Karim and Raheen finish one another s sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. As the years go by they let a barrier of silence build between them until, finally, they are brought together during a dry summer of strikes and ethnic violence and their relationship is poised between strained friendship and fated love.
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Perceptive, funny and poignant - Times Literary Supplement

A touching love story, with the city of Karachi beating at its heart - Daily Mail

A gorgeous novel of perimeters and boundaries, of the regions - literal and figurative - in which we re comfortable moving about and those through which we d rather not travel - Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Kamila Shamsie was born and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. She is the author of seven previous novels including Burnt Shadows, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and A God in Every Stone, shortlisted for the Women s Bailey s Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. Her novel Home Fire won the Women s Prize for Fiction in 2018. It was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the London Hellenic Prize. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow and Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She is professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in London.

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