When I Hit You - A Portrait of the Writer's Wife in Her Youth

In her second novel, "When I Hit You - A Portrait of the Young Wife Writer," translated here into Arabic, the narrator, whose name we do not know, falls in love with a communist university professor who agrees to marry her. From the moment of marriage, the brutal struggle between male and female transforms into a class and sexual conflict, resulting from the tension between two worlds: a struggle over ownership of the body and ownership of the thinking female mind. The ferocity and violence in the narrator's description of her reality place us under the microscope of the real question of what it means for a creative woman, in every place and time, to be confined and reduced to the image of the ideal wife, who overnight becomes a silent follower, captive to another voice in a place that is not hers, in a job that is not hers, and in circles that are not hers. About the author: Meena Kandasamy, author of When I Hit You - A Portrait of the Writer's Wife in Her Youth and author of 1 other book. - Author Elvanil Meena Kandasamy (born October 12, 1979)