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When I Hit You

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  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2018)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2018)
  • Jhalak Prize Nominee (2018)
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When I Hit You

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ISBN: 9789386228307
Authors: Meena Kandasamy
Date of Publication: 2017-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Poetry
Related Topics: Asia, Feminism, Feminism
Goodreads rating: 4.09
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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 idealised 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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