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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018
Guardian's Best Books of 2017Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017Observer Best Books of 2017Financial Times Best Books of 2017
"Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise w
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018
Guardian's Best Books of 2017Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017Observer Best Books of 2017Financial 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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