{"product_id":"heart-lamp-selected-stories","title":"Heart Lamp: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the twelve stories of \u003ci\u003eHeart Lamp\u003c\/i\u003e, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten 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 as India's most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623634075962,"sku":"9781761381836","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/9781761381836.jpg?v=1753170038","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/heart-lamp-selected-stories","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}