The Cartographer of Kilimanjaro
Neema Mwangi
The Cartographer of Kilimanjaro
Neema MwangiKSh 520
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About this book
A Tanzanian surveyor is hired to map a mountain her grandmother told her must never be measured. As the survey climbs, so does everything she has refused to remember. A luminous novel about inheritance and altitude.
Sample
My father mapped a mountain that refused to hold still. Every dry season he walked the same route with the same instruments and returned with different numbers, and every year the department told him he had made an error. The glacier was leaving. His arithmetic was fine. I found his notebooks after the funeral, forty of them, each page a small argument with time. On the last page he had written, in the careful hand he used for official things: *the map is not wrong, the wor…
The author
Neema Mwangi grew up in Moshi in the shadow of the mountain. She is a novelist, mountaineer, and reluctant public speaker.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 344
- Published
- 2022
- Chapters available
- 1