When I hit you
Kandasamy, Meena2018
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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.
When I hit you / Meena Kandasamy.
Kandasamy, Meena, author
London : Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd, 2018.©2018
249 pages ; 20 cm
9781786491282 (paperback)
823.92
English
337168
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