Fiction · 2023

The Cartographer's Daughter

by Ines Vela

A novel about maps, inheritance and the places we leave out.

Format
Paperback
Pages
288
Price
€18

About the book

When her father dies, a mapmaker's daughter inherits a box of unfinished charts. Following their blank spaces takes her from Lisbon to the Baltic and into the history her family spent a lifetime drawing around.

The Cartographer's Daughter is a novel about the stories that maps tell, and the ones they cannot.

“Every map is a promise that something has been left out.”

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Ines Vela

Ines Vela is a novelist and translator. The Cartographer's Daughter is her second novel.