Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners until they rematched in what they call the fianc 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 but a country's turbulent history-and a grown-up Raheen and Karim are caught between strained friendship and fated love.

A love story with a family mystery at its heart, Kartography is a dazzling novel by a young writer of astonishing maturity and exhilarating style. Shamsie transports us to a world we have not often seen in fiction-vibrant, dangerous, sensuous Pakistan. But even as she takes us far from the familiar, her story of passion and family secrets rings universally true.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 06/07/2004
ISBN: 9780156029735
Pages: 305
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Booksense '76 June 2004 06/01/2004 pg. 1

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 84070 / Kartography
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17