<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for "Kandasamy, Meena"]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for "Kandasamy, Meena"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/hclib/rss/search?query=%22Kandasamy%2C%20Meena%22&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:45:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[When I Hit You]]></title><description><![CDATA["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 experiences extreme violence at her husband's hands and finds herself socially isolated. Intellectual and physical cruelty is explored. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance and, as the subtitle suggests, the novel is also about the act of writing itself and the way that fiction and stories can help you escape"-- Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6010611</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6010611</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kandasamy, Meena]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6010611109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Or, A Portrait of the Writer as A Young Wife</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781609455996/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as A Young Wife]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. At once the chronicle of an abusive marriage and a celebration of the invincible power of art, When I Hit You is a smart, fierce and courageous take on traditional wedlock in modern India.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6027529</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6027529</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kandasamy, Meena]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6027529109</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781609456009/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exquisite Cadavers]]></title><description><![CDATA["Karim and Maya are lovers. They share a home, they worry about money, and then Maya falls pregnant. But Karim is still finishing his film degree, pushing against his tutors' insistence that his art must be Arab like him. And Maya, working a zero-hours job and fretting about her family, can't find the time to quit smoking, let alone have a child. Framed with fragments and peppered with footnotes Exquisite Cadavers is at once a bricolage of influence, and a love story that knows no borders."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6089165</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6089165</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kandasamy, Meena]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6089165109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781786499653/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>