When I Hit You - Rilegato

Kandasamy, Meena

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1786491265 ISBN 13: 9781786491268

Casa editrice: Atlantic Books, 2017

Riassunto

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: Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife(Atlantic)"- 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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Recensione

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

L'autore

Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), and the critically acclaimed novel, Gypsy Goddess.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Atlantic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1786491265
• ISBN 13: 9781786491268
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile