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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories: Winner of the International Booker Prize Jennifer A. McGowan traditional accounts of how DeathIn 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 Indias most prestigious literary awards. A significant presence in Kannada literature, Banu Mushtaq reveals the varied realities of contemporary women