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International Booker Prize いんたーなしょなるぶっかーしょう

Edition 16 (2025)

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Banu Mushtaq Winner

A collection of twelve Kannada short stories that follows women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. It traces the frictions of family life, faith, caste, and patriarchy through dry humor and a vivid spoken style.

Twelve stories that render the lives of women in southern India with quiet anger and dark humor.

215 pages
women's livesMuslim communitiesfamilyfaithpatriarchy