In Heart Lamp, women also bear the brunt of the peculiar obsessions of men who want their desires fulfilled without giving much thought to the women, as it happens in ‘High-Heeled Shoe’, ‘The Arabic Teacher and Gobi Manchuri’
Each story probes the uneasy space between the social world and our own flesh, with characters whose bizarre transformations reveal both visceral terror and painful truths
Friday, 08 August 2025
