Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
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And Other Stories
UK
2025
Paperback
192
Standard
323268
978-1-916751-16-3
1-916751-16-4
Fiction in translation
Annotation
Winner of the 2025 International Booker PrizeIn the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India's most prestigious literary awards. 'A significant presence in Kannada literature, Banu Mushtaq reveals the varied realities of contemporary women with rare talent and art.
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