When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer As a Young Wife
Author(s): Meena Kandasamy
Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him to a rain-washed coastal town, she swiftly learns that what for her is a bond of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of an obedient wife, bullying her and devouring her ambition of being a writer in the process, she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape. At once the chronicle of an abusive marriage and a celebration of the invincible power of art, When I Hit You is a smart, fierce and courageous take on traditional wedlock in modern India.
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Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction
It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Caroline Criado-Perez, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie to match Kandasamy's infinite variety Independent Revelations come to Kandasamy frequently and prophecies linger at her lips. Older by nearly half a century, I acknowledge the superiority of her poetic vision -- Kamala Das
General Fields
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- : Atlantic Books, Limited
- : Atlantic Books
- : 0.339
- : 31 March 2017
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : 256
- : Main
- : Hardback
- : Meena Kandasamy