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037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bBAN/HE
100			_aBanu Mushtaq
245			_aHEART LAMP _b: Selected Stories
250			_a1
260			_aHaryana _bPenguin Books _c2025
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500			_aIn 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.
650			_aFiction
700			_aDeepa Bhahtaq (tr.)
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999			_c195490 _d195490