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Meena Kandasamy

When I Hit You

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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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185 printed pages
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Bookwire
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
Publisher
Atlantic Books

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  • Refiloe Masitashared an impression7 years ago
    👎Give This a Miss
    🔮Hidden Depths
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    I do not have words to describe how much I loved this book. It's made worse by the fact that I'm not good at reviewing either.

    All I can say is that this was perhaps one of my greatest reads this year. One of my favorite books.

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      👍Worth reading
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        💡Learnt A Lot

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        • Refiloe Masitahas quoted7 years ago
          Some men leave me because I am unpredictable – sunshine one moment and storm clouds the next; the scent of summer rain with the sleep-depriving aftershock of thunder. They cannot keep pace with the fighting that follows the kissing that follows the argument that follows the laughing in unending circles.
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        • Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshas quoted5 months ago
          She is working on the principle that to consult a man is to make him feel like a king, and to report to him is to make him feel like a god.
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          • Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshas quoted5 months ago
            Don’t let people remove you from your own story.
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