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- ISBN 9781646054381
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 03 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is a lyrical, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory.
Nomi and Zee are Local Borns—their father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. When war descends upon this overlooked outpost of Empire, the British are forced out and the Japanese move in. The islands—and the seas surrounding them—become a battlefield, resulting in tragedy for some and a brittle kind of freedom for others, who find themselves increasingly entangled in a mesh of alliances and betrayals.
Ambitiously imagined and hauntingly alive, Uzma Aslam Khanwrites into being the interwoven stories of people caught in the vortex of colonial collision, powerless save for their own bravery and empathy. The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is an epic telling of a largely forgottenchapter in history.
Uzma Aslam Khan is the award-winning author of five novels translated worldwide to critical acclaim. These include Trespassing, recipient of a Commonwealth Prize nomination in 2003; The Geometry of God, a Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2009; Thinner Than Skin, nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and winner of the French Embassy Prize for Best Fiction at the Karachi Literature Festival 2014. Khan’s fifth novel, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali, won the Karachi Literature Festival-Getz Pharma Fiction Prize and the UBL Literary Awards English Language Fiction category in Pakistan, and in India was shortlisted for the TATA Literature Live! Best Book of the Year, Fiction. The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali was a New York Times' pick for "Best Historical Fiction 2022" and “Books for Summer 2022.” It won the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. Born and raised primarily in Pakistan, Khan has also lived in the Philippines, Japan, England, Morocco, and Oceania. She currently makes a home in western Massachusetts.
