Product Description:
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Paper quality= 70 gsm offwhite (Excellent)
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Cover quality= 260 gsm card
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Digitally printed, with excellent print and paper quality
Book Synopsis:
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2025
In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Originally published in Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, during 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 and India’s most prestigious literary awards; this collection is sure to be read for years to come. Order your book in Pakistan from Bookshelf.pk
