Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
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"Exploring 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 on Heart Lamp
These twelve stories exquisitely capture 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 bring to life sparky children, audacious grandmothers, buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, oft-hapless husbands, and, above all, mothers surviving their feelings at great cost. Written in a style that is witty, vivid, colloquial, moving, and excoriating, these stories build disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken tradition, offering a powerful, human lens on the struggles and resilience of women.