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“Meena Kandasamy’s vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife(Atlantic)”- 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. Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize, 2018 Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas 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

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: When I Hit You
• Author: Meena Kandasamy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781786491282
• ISBN: 1786491281
• ID: 18202978
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Weight: 258 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 197 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2018

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