The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

Uzma Aslam Khan is the 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. 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. Published in the US and UK by Deep Vellum in 2022, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali was listed by the New York Times as "Best Historical Fiction 2022," and "Books for Summer 2022." It is a 2022 Foreword INDIES finalist in historical fiction, as well as winner of Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. Born and raised primarily in Pakistan, Khan has also lived in the Philippines, Japan, England and Morocco, as well as in the US—in Upstate New York, Arizona and Hawaii. Since 2012, she has made a home in western Massachusetts.

Set in the Andaman Islands over the course of oppressive imperial regimes, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is a complex, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory.