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Heart-Lamp-by-Banu-MushtaqWinner-of-the-International-Booker-Prize-2025In-the-twelve-stories-of-Heart-Lamp,-Banu-Mushtaq-exquisitely-captures-the-everyday-lives-of-women-and-girls-in-Muslim-communities-in-southern-India.-Published-originally-in-the-Kannada-language-between-1990-and-2023,-praised-for-their-dry-and-gentle-humour,-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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