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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
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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
A BEST BOOK OF 2017
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“Meena Kandasamy’s vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You.”—The Guardian
Set in modern India, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Based on the author’s own experience of marriage, soon the newly-wed expe...