THE GITA FOR CHILDREN

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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025

In Heart Lamp 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.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ India Penguin (15 April 2025)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143464477
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143464471
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 160 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.37 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Importer ‏ : ‎ Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Packer ‏ : ‎ Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Best Sellers Rank: #63 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Short Stories (Books) #5 in Contemporary Fiction (Books)
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