A wonderful Delhi novel for our times, a Shahr-e-Ashob of the new India. History's Angel is eloquent, brave, elegaic and ultimately, heartbreaking. This remarkable novel reminded me of both of Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi and Anita Desai's In Custody, and confirms Anjum Hasan as one of our finest and most important writers

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

Poignant ... An unsettling, piercingly intimate portrait of the rough birth of Modi's new India

FINANCIAL TIMES

A beautiful novel exploring tensions in modern India ... timely and elegiac

OBSERVER

Hasan grants this hero such a complete inner life - and surrounds him with such finely drawn characters - that the very air he breathes seems dense with thoughts and longings

WALL STREET JOURNAL

An extraordinary tale of an ordinary Muslim ... Hasan is cannily observant, a sophisticated writer with a wry and subtle sense of humour, with which she highlights the ridiculousness and futility of seemingly ordinary milieus, while never detracting from the increasing alienation of a community

TRIBUNE INDIA

Poignant and thought-provoking…deftly highlights the power of ideas

NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS