Meena Kandasamy (Author of When I Hit You)

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Meena Kandasamy

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Poetry, Fiction, Contemporary

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	When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife 4.08 avg rating — 6,412 ratings — published 2017 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exquisite Cadavers 3.82 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gypsy Goddess 3.77 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ms Militancy 4.16 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Orders Were To Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam Struggle 4.28 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You 4.15 avg rating — 116 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book Of Desire 4.08 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Poem Will Provoke You 4.10 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Touch 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dalit History by Meena Kandasamy (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), Gopal Guru 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Let me tell you something that goes against popular wisdom. Love is not blind; it just looks in the wrong places.”
― Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

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“The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.”
― Meena Kandasamy, The Gypsy Goddess

tags: fiction, kurt-vonnegut, metafiction

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“I am the woman who is willing to display her scars and put them within exhibition frames. I am the madwoman of moon days. I am the breast-beating woman who howls. I am the woman who wills the skies to weep in my place.”
― Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

8 votes, 34.8%

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

6 votes, 26.1%

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

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You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe

1 vote, 4.3%

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Meena鈥檚 Quotes

“Just because this is a novel set in rural India, do not expect a herd of buffalo to walk across every page for the sake of authenticity.”
― Meena Kandasamy, The Gypsy Goddess

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“Everything is so precariously held together here that you might want a helping hand. Nobody is going to teach you that right after a harvest, poorly paid labourers were hungry enough to smoke out rodent holes and steal back the grains of paddy pilfered by rats. But you will manage. You will learn to relate without family trees. You will learn to make do without a village map. You will learn that criminal landlords can break civil laws to enforce caste codes. You will learn that handfuls of rice of rice can consume half a village. You will loafer learn that in the eyes of the law, the rich are incapable of soiling their hands with either mud or blood. You will learn to wait for revenge with the patience of a village awaiting rain.”
― Meena Kandasamy, The Gypsy Goddess

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