Description
Heart Lamp
Paperback
by Banu Mushtaq,Deepa Bhasthi
- Publisher : Penguin Random House SEA (2025), 224 pages
- Language : English
- Paperback : 2006
- ISBN-10 : ?1421598280
- ISBN-13 : 9780143464471
- Weight : 0.5
- Dimensions : 2.5×13.33×21.59 cm
Heart Lamp,Selected Stories | Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025,Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi,Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025,In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.
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Average Rating:
3.6 rating based on 402 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0143464477
ISBN-13: 9780143464471
Goodreads: 232645727
Author(s):
Publisher: Penguin Random House India
Published: 4//2025
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.
3.6 rating based on 402 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0143464477
ISBN-13: 9780143464471
Goodreads: 232645727
Author(s):
Published: 4//2025
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.
