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020			_a9780143464471 (pbk.)
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100			_a Mushtaq, Banu _eAuthor _926798
245			_aHeart lamp / _cBanu Mushtaq
260			_aHaryana : _bPenguin , _c2025.
300			_a216p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographies and index.
520			_aWINNER 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.
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