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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

Meena Kandasamy

4.08/5 (4164 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 249 pages

Publication:: 2017

Publisher:: Atlantic Books

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1786491265

ISBN13:: 9781786491268

kindle Asin:: B085HL455G

When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

Meena Kandasamy

4.08/5 (4164 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 249 pages

Publication:: 2017

Publisher:: Atlantic Books

Edition:: Main

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1786491265

ISBN13:: 9781786491268

kindle Asin:: B085HL455G

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