When I hit you
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. At once the chronicle of an abusive marriage and a celebration of the invincible power of art, When I Hit You is a smart, fierce and courageous take on traditional wedlock in modern India.
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Abused wives > Fiction. College teachers > Fiction. India > Social conditions > Fiction. |
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Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781786491282
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Physical Description
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249 pages ; 20 cm - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.