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100			_aMushtaq, Banu
245			_aHeart lamp: selected stories
260			_aNew Delhi: _bPenguin Random House, _c2025.
300			_a216p.: _bpbk.: _c22cm.
500			_aWinner of International Booker Prize 2025
520			_aIn 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. https://www.penguin.co.in/book/heart-lamp/
650			_aMuslim Women
650			_aSocial Issues
650			_aShort Stories
650			_aKannada Literature
650			_aBiographical
700			_aBhasthi, Deepa _eTranslator
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