When I Hit You: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
Language: English
Published by Atlantic Books, 2018
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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 'EXPLOSIVE' - GUARDIAN.
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- Title
- When I Hit You: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
- Author
- Meena Kandasamy
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1786491281
- ISBN 13
- 9781786491282
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.
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