The Last Cartographer

M. K. Verma returns with a deeply personal novel that is both a love letter to the dying art of cartography and a meditation on what it means to truly know another person. Retired surveyor Ramesh Iyer, facing the onset of dementia, embarks on a final journey to map the village of his childhood before it is submerged by a new dam. But as his memory fractures, the map he draws becomes increasingly fantastical, blurring the line between the geography of place and the geography of the soul. The Last Cartographer is Verma at his most tender, his most brave, and his most brilliant.

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M. K. Verma

Author of family sagas and quiet, character-driven novels set across the Indian subcontinent.

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