When I Hit You - Couverture rigide

Kandasamy, Meena

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786491265 ISBN 13 : 9781786491268

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Probably one of the most important and shocking and poetic books of 2017 --Readwomen

Courageous and brave and disturbing and will stay with you for a long time --Stylist

Fierce and unforgettable --Culturefly

Searing... I read it in a single sitting --Fatima Bhutto

Brilliant... Astonishing... By far the best read of the year --Women Writers

This book is so so good. One of the best of the year --Nikesh Shukla

Such raw, lyrical reading --RTE Arena

A brilliant but brutal punch to the guts --Monisha Rajesh

Urgent... It's beating heart is a universally recognised quest for freedom and meaning in a world where women are still shockingly undervalued --Financial Times

Heartbreaking... It isn't an easy read, but it is an important one --The F-Word

A punch to the gut --The Wire

The best thing I've read in 2017. Simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, it's a work of considerable power --The Page is Printed

Read it as an extended prose poem, a feminist anthem, an experiment with life. But do read it.

--The Daily O

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From one of India's boldest and most badass young voices, When I Hit You is a dazzling and provocative novel of an abusive marriage.

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786491265
• ISBN 13: 9781786491268
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256