A wonderful Delhi novel for our times, a Shahr-e-Ashob of the new India. History's Angel is eloquent, brave, elegiac and, ultimately, heartbreaking. This remarkable novel confirms Anjum Hasan as one of our finest and most important writers.

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

History's Angel is a seething seismic tale … Told in a subdued, sad, ironical tenor, it is compassionate without being sentimental. The novel asserts humanity and hope in the face of widening fissures through its main protagonist who draws sustenance from a deep historical perspective.

GEETANJALI SHREE, author of the International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of Sand

Extremely timely … History's Angel helps us view the erasures of the past through a living lens. With sensitivity and nuance, Anjum Hasan draws us into the world of Alif.

DAISY ROCKWELL, translator of the International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of Sand

This absorbing novel trespasses, from sentence to sentence, the boundaries that usually demarcate the grandeur of the historical from the tedium, humour and disappointments of ordinary human life. Domesticity, everyday routine, and our historical pasts and futures are conjoined here tantalisingly, with impressive skill, and with real tenderness.

AMIT CHAUDHURI

A shimmering, intelligent rage roils under a cool surface in History's Angel, which manages at once to be “made so insistently, so noisily, of now” and inhabit layers of history. Hasan's eye is sharp and her aim is unerring. This is a work of sublime elegance.

SHRUTI SWAMY

Wonderfully restrained, shrewdly comic novel

Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal