Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani novelist, who writes in English. She was born in 1973, was brought up in Karachi. In addition to Kartography, she has written two other novels, In the City by the Sea (for which she was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys/Main on Sunday Prize, and received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature) and Salt and Safron. She was also selected as Orange's 21 Writers of the 21st Century. She is the daughter of the famous literary journalist, compiler and editor Muneeza Shamsie.

Books

Books by Kamila Shamsie include:

• Salt and Saffron [ISBN 158234261X]
• Kartography [ISBN 0156029731 | ISBN 0195798333]

Back-cover: What is the moment, that exact moment, when everything changes and the friend 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. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts-violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave, and ultimately, home.

• In the City by the Sea [ISBN 0140281819]
• Broken Verses [ISBN 0156030535]