Description
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Hardcover
by Mushtaq, Banu
- Publisher : Penguin Hamish Hamilton (2025), 224 pages
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 2025
- ISBN-10 : 014347779X
- ISBN-13 : 9780143477792
- Weight : 0.5
- Dimensions : 22x3x13 cm
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq (2025)
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Average Rating:
3.8 rating based on 6,846 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 014347779X
ISBN-13: 9780143477792
Goodreads: 241709075
Author(s):
Publisher: Penguin Hamish Hamilton
Published: 8/18/2025
Winner of 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. 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.
3.8 rating based on 6,846 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 014347779X
ISBN-13: 9780143477792
Goodreads: 241709075
Author(s):
Published: 8/18/2025
Winner of 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. 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.
