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The Miraculous True History Of Nomi ali
[Paperback - 2020]
uzma aslam khan
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Ilqa Publications | ISBN: 9789696401582 | Pages: 372
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Shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live! Best Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2019

"The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali brilliantly excavates a forgotten past of several societies and honours its human complexity with a narrative of delicate precision. As affecting as it is intellectually powerful, the novel is a master lesson in the art of historical fiction.

-Pankaj Mishra

Nomi and Zee are Local Borns-their father a convict con demned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. When war descends upon this over looked outpost of Empire and the Japanese move in, Zee is forced to flee, leaving Nomi and the other islanders to contend with a new malice. The islands of surreal beauty and the seas surrounding them become a battlefield, resulting in tragedy for some and a brittle kind of freedom for others, including for Prisoner 218 D, who wages a war with only her body and her memory.

Ambitiously imagined and hauntingly brought to life, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali writes into being the interwoven stories of people caught in the vortex of history, powerless yet with powers of their own: of bravery and won der, empathy and endurance. Uzma Aslam Khan s extraordi nary new novel is an unflinching and lyrical page-turner, an epic telling of a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the subcontinent.

About the Author

Uzma Aslam Khan was born in Lahore. Soon after her birth, her parents moved to the Philippines and then to Japan and England. In 1979, they returned to Pakistan and settled in Karachi. Many geographies have shaped me, Uzma says and no wonder this cultural diversity has helped her write good fiction all along. Uzma is the author of four novels. Her second novel Trespassing was shortlisted for Commonwealth Prize Eurasia 2003 and has been translated into 13 languages. Her latest novel Thinner Than Skin was nominated for Man Asian Literary Prize 2012. She currently lives in the USA

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