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Kartography | Kamila Shamsie
5 posts | 8 read | 1 reading | 6 to read
What is the moment, that exact moment when everything changes and the friends you have been, become the lovers you might be? Soul mates from birth Karim and Raheen finish one another's sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine as children. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. However, Raheen is fiercely loyal and naively blinkered and she resents Karim's need to map their city, his need to name its streets and to expand the privileged world they know. When Karim is forced to leave for London their differences of opinion become a painful quarrel. 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. Impassioned and touching, KARTOGRAPHY is a love song to Karachi. In her extraordinary new novel, Kamila Shamsie shows us that whatever happens in the world, we must never forget the complicated war in our own hearts.
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nandana
Kartography | Kamila Shamsie
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#readjanuary #publishedin2000s

I read this so long ago but was completely enthralled by the Karachi and the friendship in this book. Wonder if I'll feel the same if I re-read..Shamsie is a delightful writer.

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razmanda
Kartography | Kamila Shamsie
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This is but a small selection of #alltimefavebooks. They are too many to list or picture, so went with the ones I go back to the most often, or that color my perception of the world. #augustphotochallenge #augustofpages

MrBook Wonderful stack and beautiful pic! 8y
AmandaL It's so hard to pick! 8y
CherylDeFranceschi Love this stack! 8y
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rababesque
Kartography | Kamila Shamsie
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On the list of my most favorite books of all time. Such poetry in her prose.