Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Banu Mushtaq · b. 1948 · India (Karnataka)
Originally Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (Kannada) · translated by Deepa Bhasthi
Why it matters
Selected stories spanning five decades track Muslim women's lives in southern India: domestic confinement, religious authority, and small, wry acts of defiance. The first short-story collection and first Kannada-language work to win the International Booker Prize.
At a glance
short story collectioncolonial & postcolonial
Difficulty 4/10fast pace256 pagesIndividually accessible stories in plain, direct prose, though the collection rewards reading them together.
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