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

Daily Mail

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

Observer

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

The Times

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

Perceptive, funny and poignant

Times Literary Supplement

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