01598 a2200217 4500 11313 IN-BhIIT 20260508193054.0 251216b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780143464471 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 823 MUS/H Mushtaq, Banu Author 26798 Heart lamp / Banu Mushtaq Haryana : Penguin , 2025. 216p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographies and index. WINNER 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. GEN 2 15129 15129 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2025-10-07 46 299.25 2 1 823 MUS/H 11313 2026-07-09 2026-05-08 19:30:54 2026-05-08 399.00 2025-10-07 GEN