SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 A BEST BOOK OF 2017 Financial Times The Guardian The Daily Telegraph The Observer "Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You."--The Guardian Set in modern India, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Based on the author's own experience of marriage, soon the newly-wed experiences extreme violence at her husband's hands and finds herself socially isolated. Intellectual and physical cruelty is explored. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance and, as the subtitle suggests, the novel is also about the act of writing itself and the way that fiction and stories can help you escape. Though a harrowing story, Kandasamy's writing is also funny, tender, and lyrical.&nbsp;When I Hit You is smart, fierce, and courageous.

When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

Literature & Fiction

Kandasamy, Meena

Literary

Europa Editions

When I Hit You

In Chennai, India, a young writer marries a college lecturer, only to discover that her new husband is a sadistic bully, intent on isolating her from the support of friends and family. Shortlisted for the 2018 Womens Prize for Fiction.

Contemporary

Atlantic PBS

An inventive, modernist short in the vein of Max Porter's Lanny.

Exquisite Cadavers

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

Poetry

Cuando te golpeo (Spanish Edition)

Malpaso Editorial

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