When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait Of The Writer As A Young Wife

Author: Meena Kandasamy

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  • : 24.99 AUD
  • : 9781786491268
  • : Atlantic Books, Limited
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  • : March 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : May 2017
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Description

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.

Awards

Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction

Reviews

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