Heart lamp
| Title | Heart lamp
selected stories |
|---|---|
| Author | Banu Mushtaq; transl. from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi |
| Publication | Penguin India |
| Size | 216p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780143464471 |
| Topics |
Indian fiction--Kannada--Short stories Indian fiction--Kannada--Translated into English Awards--International Booker Prize |
| Notes | In 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 ...[goodreads] |
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