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The ethics of map-making and the invisibilisation of those who helped the British Empire in doing so are at the heart of Deepa Anappara’s second book of fiction. Coming many years after Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, her first, well-received one, this book, too, is meticulously researched and beautifully written.
The story unfolds in two ways — one, as a carefully plotted adventure in which two sets of people with different motivations journey illicitly across Tibet. The other is a quiet meditation on many issues, existential and otherwise.
The year is 1869. Tibet is closed to the Western world, and this puts a spoke in the wheel of the British Empire’s ambitions to map it ...
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