TY - BOOK AU - Kandasamy,Meena TI - When I hit you, or, A portrait of the writer as a young wife SN - 9789386228307 (hardback) U1 - 823.92 KAN 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New Delhi PB - Juggernaut Books KW - Social conditions KW - fast KW - India KW - Fiction N1 - Title Page; Dedication; Contents; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; Copyright N2 - 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 ER -