{"product_id":"heart-lamp-selected-stories-winner-of-the-international-booker-prize-2025-paperback","title":"Heart Lamp: Selected Stories | WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Paperback","description":"\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%; height: 137.157px;\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-text-center rpi-attribute-label\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrint length\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e224 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook cover type\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003ePaperback \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenguin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-text-center rpi-attribute-label\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication date\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e15 April 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.37 x 12.9 x 19.8 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 33.5677%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 66.0808%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e160g\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHeart Lamp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eProduct description\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-base\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eExploring the lives of those often on the periphery of society, these vivid stories hold immense emotional and moral weight. -- The International Booker Prize 2025 Judges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanu Mushtaq was one of the founding members of the Bandaya Sahitya Sanghatane, which means the Rebel Literary Movement. A favorite phrase of the movement was: 'The dear friend whose heart beats for people's pain.' We see this compassion and love for the people, in particular Muslim women, that Mushtaq writes about in her stories. As a friend, she writes from amidst them, for them, through the struggles, details and complexity of their lives. Deepa Bhasthi's beautiful translation shares these stories with a wider readership. -- Kavita Bhanot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A significant presence in Kannada literature, Banu Mushtaq reveals the varied realities of contemporary women with rare talent and art. Deepa Bhasthi’s rich translation captures the original’s nuances of voice, context and experience, bringing this important work into English for new readers in India and internationally.’ -- the English PEN Award ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePEN Presents Selection Panel\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBanu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer from Karnataka, India. Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in southwestern India in the 1970s and 80s. Critical of the caste system, the Bandaya Sahitya movementgave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women. She is the author of six short story collections,a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection. She writes in Kannada and has won the Karnataka Sahitya Academy and Daana Chintamani Attimabbe awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeepa Bhasthi is a writer and literary translator based in Kodagu, southern India. Her columns, essays and cultural criticism have been published in India and internationally. Her published translations from Kannada include a novel by Kota Shivarama Karanth and a collection of short stories by Kodagina Gouramma. 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