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When I Hit You

When I Hit You

by Meena Kandasamy
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 04/05/2017
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018

Guardian's Best Books of 2017

Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017

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"Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You"- Guardian

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.

ISBN:
9781786491275
9781786491275
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-05-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), and the critically acclaimed novel, Gypsy Goddess. Her second novel, When I Hit You, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction 2018. She currently lives in East London.

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