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 Published On: 2023-07-21

Erudite and languid novel...Hasan's layering of history and personal drama accrues a subtle but undeniable power - Publishers Weekly Published On: 2023-05-05

Poignant and thought-provoking novel...deftly highlights the power of ideas and the peril of majoritarianism -- Murali Kamma - New York Journal of Books Published On: 2023-07-17

An extraordinary book about a life most ordinary...Hasan is cannily observant, a sophisticated writer with a wry and subtle sense of humour -- Aradhika Sharma - Tribune Published On: 2023-07-09

An urgent and provocative read -- Devapriya Roy - Mint Published On: 2023-07-30

A beautiful novel, timely and elegiac -- Hephzibah Anderson - The Guardian Published On: 2023-07-30

It is tempting to see History's Angel as a political or even a philosophical novel, but that would be limiting its scope. Hasan's command of expressions of ordinariness, ambivalence and power equations layers it with possibilities that reward multiple readings. Her intelligence and depth ... have been employed in the service of the story. Lesser writers might have done the reverse, using the novel as an excuse for spouting philosophy. This is not just an important novel, but a necessary one for our times. -- Suresh Menon - India Today Published On: 2023-09-18

An engrossing read, encompassing India's past, present and future -- Neha Kirpal - The Patriot Published On: 2023-07-18

An important book...the characters are compelling, the setting painfully accurate and the sentences shine -- Saudamini Jain - Hindustan Times Published On: 2023-07-14

Subtle yet impressive -- Sayari Debnath -&n