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When I Hit You
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Pub Date
Jun 1 2018
| Archive Date
Apr 30 2018
Description
Informed and inspired by her own experiences, Kandasamy's second novel is a dazzling and provocative novel of an abusive marriage—for readers of Men Explain Things to Me, I Love Dick and The Argonauts
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 idealized 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.
Informed and inspired by her own experiences, Kandasamy's second novel is a dazzling and provocative novel of an abusive marriage—for readers of Men Explain Things to Me, I Love Dick and The Argonauts
...
Description
Informed and inspired by her own experiences, Kandasamy's second novel is a dazzling and provocative novel of an abusive marriage—for readers of Men Explain Things to Me, I Love Dick and The Argonauts
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 idealized 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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9781786491275 |
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CA$16.95 (CAD)
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781786491275 |
| PRICE |
CA$16.95 (CAD)
|
Available to Buy
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*This page contains affiliate links, so we may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through links on our site at no additional cost to you.
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