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Title details for When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy - Available

When I Hit You

by Meena Kandasamy
Maya Saroya
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018, LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018, SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018, Guardian's Best Books of 2017 , Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017 , Observer Best Books of 2017 , Financial Times Best Books of 2017. "Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You"- Guardian. 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.
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Publisher: W.F. Howes Edition: Unabridged

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  • File size: 162203 KB
  • Release date: May 2, 2019
  • Duration: 05:37:55

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  • File size: 162226 KB
  • Release date: May 2, 2019
  • Duration: 05:39:55
  • Number of parts: 5
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Fiction Literature

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English

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018, LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018, SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018, Guardian's Best Books of 2017 , Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017 , Observer Best Books of 2017 , Financial Times Best Books of 2017. "Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You"- Guardian. 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.
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Fiction Literature