Uzma Aslam Khan, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2019

Places

Pakistan (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

(2019) is Uzma Aslam Khan’s fifth novel, winner of the UBL2020 English Fiction award, and shortlisted for the 2020 KLF-Getz Pharma Fiction award and the 2019 Tata Live! Book of the Year Award for Fiction. The book, a “much needed work of historical fiction” (Arif), is probably the first South Asian English novel to focus on that notorious British penal colony, the South Andaman Island in the archipelago, seven hundred miles south of Calcutta in the Bay of Bengal. “Invested with institutionally manufactured fear and intimidation… it lay beyond the dreaded

Kala Pani

or Black Water.

Generations of freedom fighters were transported to it on life sentences” (Siddique) along with other criminals. They were incarcerated in the cellular jail,…

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Citation: Shamsie, Muneeza. "The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 October 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39023, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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