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Title: When I Hit You
Author: KANDASAMY MEENA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 24/05/2017
Imprint: ATLANTIC BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781786491268
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 256