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Various : Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize. A PEN Translates Award winner
Heart Lamp
What you need to know before your trail
In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious literary awards.
Travel Guide
Southern India
The locations are vague and fleeting but they tell of small, remote communities across Southern India where women build homes and families.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Heart Lamp
Destination/location: Southern India, Karnataka Author/guide: Banu Mushtaq Departure Time: 2025
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