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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

by Deepa Bhasthi, Banu Mushtaq
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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Sharp, tender women’s lives under quiet pressure

This feels like stepping into intimate rooms where wit, grief, defiance, and survival all sit side by side. Mushtaq writes with such humane precision that the women and girls linger long after each story ends, never reduced to symbols. If you love fiction that is socially incisive yet warm, funny, and deeply alive to everyday contradiction, this collection could really stay with you.

  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Gregg Barrios Book in Translation (2025)
  • International Booker Prize (2025)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Deepa Bhasthi, Banu Mushtaq
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ISBN: 9780143464471
Authors: Deepa Bhasthi, Banu Mushtaq
Publisher: Penguin Random House India
Date of Publication: 2025-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Feminism, Literary Criticism, Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.78
(rated by 11263 readers)

Description

Selected stories by Banu Mushtaq that explore the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Originally written in Kannada, the collection uses humor and vivid, colloquial narration to portray family and community tensions, as well as resilience. Through sparky children, bold grandmothers, and everyday mothers and wives, the stories offer a piercing, humane view of life and social change.
 

Sharp, tender women’s lives under quiet pressure

This feels like stepping into intimate rooms where wit, grief, defiance, and survival all sit side by side. Mushtaq writes with such humane precision that the women and girls linger long after each story ends, never reduced to symbols. If you love fiction that is socially incisive yet warm, funny, and deeply alive to everyday contradiction, this collection could really stay with you.

  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Gregg Barrios Book in Translation (2025)
  • International Booker Prize (2025)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.