When I Hit You: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

Meena Kandasamy

ISBN 10: 1786491265 / ISBN 13: 9781786491268

Published by Atlantic Books, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When I Hit You: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786491265
• ISBN 13: 9781786491268
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 340 grams

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Synopsis

Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife, but what for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealized version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an academic and writer in the process, she attempts to push back—a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape. Smart, fierce and courageous, When I Hit You is a dissection of what love meant, means and will come to mean when trust is undermined by violence; a brilliant, throat-tightening feminist discourse on battered faces and bruised male egos; and a scathing portrait of traditional wedlock in modern India.

About the Author

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in India. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch and Ms. Militancy, and the critically-acclaimed novel, Gypsy Goddess.