The Cartography
of Silence

A novel of memory, migration,
and the maps we draw in absence

When cartographer Adaeze Njoku inherits her late mother's unfinished atlas — a collection of hand-drawn maps of cities that no longer exist — she embarks on a journey across four continents and six decades. The Cartography of Silence is a novel about the geographies we carry inside us: language, grief, the borders of the self.

• "Okafor writes with the precision of a surveyor and the tenderness of someone who has lost everything she was trying to map. One of the decade's most necessary novels."

  The New York Times Book Review

• "Capacious, devastating, luminous. The Cartography of Silence remakes the possibilities of the novel form."

  Hilary Mantel — Booker Prize Committee

• "Every sentence earns its place. Okafor is the real thing."

  Granta Magazine