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Heart lamp : selected stories
Mushtaq, Banu2025
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A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of India's highest literary honours. 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-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.
Main title:
Heart lamp : selected stories / by Banu Mushtaq ; translated by Deepa Bhasthi.
Author:
Mushtaq, BanuBhasthi, Deepa, translator
Imprint:
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe, 2025.
Collation:
215 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Includes translation.In English, translated from the Kannada.
Contents:
Stone slabs for Shaista MahalFire rainBlack cobrasA decision of the heartRed lungiHeart lampHigh-heeled shoeSoft whispersA taste of heavenThe shroudThe Arabic teacher and Gobi ManchuriBe a woman once, oh Lord!
ISBN:
9781761381836 (paperback)
Language:
EnglishKannada
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BRN:
531786
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