---
title: "The Cartographer of Absences"
author: "Mia Couto"
genre: "Mystery & Thriller, Magical Realism / Literary"
category: "Fiction"
themes: "Colonial history and its lasting trauma;Memory, forgetting, and the search for truth;Cultural identity and the post-colonial experience;The relationship between place and history (setting as a character)"
isbn_13: "9780374616311"
isbn_10: "0374616310"
asin: "0374616310"
bnid: "1146657358"
amazon_link: "https://www.amazon.com/Cartographer-Absences-Novel-Mia-Couto/dp/0374616310"
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bn_link: "https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cartographer-of-absences-mia-couto/1146657358"
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data_license: "CC BY-NC 4.0"
---

# The Cartographer of Absences

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