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Kartography by Kamila Shamsie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kartography about?

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 fiancée 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's—and 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." — Harper's Bazaar "[Shamsie] packs her story with the playful evi

Who reads Kartography?

Author

Kamila Shamsie

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299901087

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Art

Rating

3.88 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14