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The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali | Uzma Aslam Khan
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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. Nomi and Zee are Local Borns--their father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. The islands are an inhospitable place, despite their surreal beauty. In this unreliable world, the children have their friend Aye, the pet hen Priya and the distracted love of their parents to shore them up from one day to the next. Meanwhile, within the walls of the prison, Prisoner 218 D wages a war on her jailers with only her body and her memory. When war descends upon this overlooked outpost of Empire, the British are forced out and the Japanese move in. Soon the first shot is fired and Zee is forced to flee, leaving Nomi and the other islanders to contend with a new malice. 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, 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 wonder, empathy and endurance. Uzma Aslam Khan's extraordinary new novel is an unflinching and lyrical page-turner, an epic telling of a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the subcontinent.
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MommyWantsToReadHerBook
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This was really a remarkable book and I have a huge author crush on Uzma Aslam Khan right now - the subjects of her writing are unique, her prose is exquisite and she makes you see the world with slightly different eyes. It wasn't an easy read for me emotionally but truly worth it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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My girls are on holiday with their dad for TWO WEEKS and the evenings are long. I seem to once again be reading something bloody depressing when I'm not in a good state of mind, but I ran out of ACs I felt like rereading so here we are. Maybe I'm getting a little better at reading about suffering. Maybe the characters' suffering makes me grateful I'm not living on a prison island and my life is good even when it's hard.

Suet624 Ugh. That's hard. I've been through this too. I'm sorry. 1y
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Looking for something to read while my children play by (in) the ponds in the Botanical Gardens. What the fuck is going on with Scribd? Books I just saved and was literally saving for another day have disappeared, audio books the children want to listen to are forever only available at the end of the month, but then in some cases also leaving Scribd soon. It used to be a lifeline of reading material and now there's nothing.

Jenken1998 they do that. I am not sure why. Scribd says it has something to do with agreements with publishers. I personally think it has something to do with keeping you subscribed for another month. If you watch the books will become available AFTER your next billing date. I also read that they are impossible to unsubscribe from. That you will get billed long after you should. I don't know about that thought because I haven't tried yet. 1y
MommyWantsToReadHerBook @Jenken1998 thanks. Haha yeah maybe next month there will be something again. Dammit. And the girls are so into their books and listen to them over and over so it's hard to pause my subscription - have done so successfully in the past (not fully unsubscribed though) 1y
Cathythoughts Beautiful pic 💕 1y
Cinfhen Agreed, sometimes Scribd can really screw you 🤪 1y
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