{"product_id":"when-i-hit-you","title":"Meena Kandasamy: When I Hit You [2017] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian's Best Books of 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver Best Books of 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Financial Times Best Books of 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of \u003ci\u003eWhen I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife\u003c\/i\u003e(Atlantic)\"- \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeduced 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kandasamy, Meena","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50727756890451,"sku":"9781786491268","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48101864374611,"sku":"XV81786491268","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kandasamy-meena-meena-kandasamy-when-i-hit-you-2017-hardback-1154477502.jpg?v=1743872619","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/when-i-hit-you","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}