Heart Lamp: Selected Stories | WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025
Author: Dr Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi
ISBN: 978-0143464471
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About This BookWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 In Heart Lamp In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come. Read moreBook DetailsAuthor: Dr Banu MushtaqPublisher: India Penguin (15 April 2025)Format: Paperback – 15 April 2025Language: EnglishPages: 224ISBN: 978-0143464471Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.37 cmWeight: 160 g
Browse this title within our Arts, Literature and Humanities collection. Edition details: Paperback – 15 April 2025, English, 224 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0143464471.
About the Author
Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer from Karnataka, India. Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in southwestern India in the 1970s and 80s. Critical of the caste system, the Bandaya Sahitya movementgave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women. She is the author of six short story collections,a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection. She writes in Kannada and has won the Karnataka Sahitya Academy and Daana Chintamani Attimabbe awards. Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and literary translator based in Kodagu, southern India. Her columns, essays and cultural criticism have been published in India and internationally. Her published translations from Kannada include a novel by Kota Shivarama Karanth and a collection of short stories by Kodagina Gouramma. Her translation of Banu Mushtaq's stories has won her the English PEN Translates award.
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- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback – 15 April 2025
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- 978-0143464471
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- Penguin
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About This BookWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 In Heart Lamp In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Arts, Literature and Humanities and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Dr Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love Heart Lamp for the way it quietly grips your heart and refuses to let go. These stories open intimate windows into the lives of women and girls navigating faith, family, and resistance in southern India. Banu Mushtaq’s voice is sharp yet deeply compassionate, blending wit, anger, and tenderness in every page. It’s a prize-winning collection that feels both culturally specific and universally human, offering profound insight in a beautifully accessible, great-value read.
- Published by Penguin.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 224.
Catalog Description
About This BookWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 In Heart Lamp In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all,...
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