

Heart Lamp is a worthy winner of the International Booker Prize 2025.
Translated from Kannada, this is a collection of short stories centring the lives of Muslim women in India.
Most of them are splendid and showcase not only a warm writing talent, but also the layers of pain and hardship suffered in a patriarchal society.
There were only two that I felt lacked a point or direction.
Contemplative, human, heart-breaking.
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