When I hit you / Meena Kandasamy.
Publication details: London : Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd, 2018.Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 249 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781786491282 (paperback)
- Portrait of the writer as a young wife
- 823/.92 23
- PR9499.4.K363
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | KAN | Available | 067998 |
"First published in hardback in Great Britain in 2017 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd."--Title page verso.
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.