Heart Lamp

Présentation

Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize — and the first short story collection ever to take the award. In the twelve stories of « Heart Lamp », written over three decades, Banu Mushtaq captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India: mothers, daughters, grandmothers negotiating faith, family and desire with wit, grit and quiet rebellion. Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, whose translation shares the prize, the collection brings into English a major voice of Karnataka's progressive literary movement. At 192 pages, it is a perfect introduction to one of the year's most celebrated books worldwide.