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When I hit you, or, A portrait of the writer as a young wife / Meena Kandasamy.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.4.K363 W44 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kandasamy, Meena, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- India--Social conditions--Fiction.
- India.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 249 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Portrait of the writer as a young wife
- Place of Publication:
- London : Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781786491268
- 1786491265
- OCLC:
- 987904574
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