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Heart lamp : selected stories / Banu Mushtaq ; translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi.
Van Pelt Library PL4659.M79 A2 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mushtaq Heart
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mushtaq, Banu, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Kannada
- Subjects (All):
- Muslim women--India--Fiction.
- Muslim women.
- Muslim girls--India--Fiction.
- Muslim girls.
- Short stories, Kannada--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Kannada.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Haryana, India : Penguin Books, An imprint of Penguin Random House, 2025.
- Summary:
- "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 humor, 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." --Amazon
- Contents:
- Stone slabs for Shaista Mahal
- Fire rain
- Black cobras
- A decision of the heart
- Red lungi
- Heart lamp
- High-heeled shoe
- Soft whispers
- A taste of heaven
- The shroud
- The Arabic teacher and Gobi Manchuri
- Be a woman once, oh lord!
- Notes:
- English Pen Translates Award, 2024
- International Booker Award winner, 2025
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0143464477
- 9780143464471
- OCLC:
- 1521449062
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