Cuando te golpeo

Overview

Seduced by political conviction, poetry, and the dream of sharing a beautiful and important project, the anonymous narrator falls in love with a Marxist professor and moves with him to a rainy coastal city in southern India. She soon discovers that the love she felt was for him a relationship of property that reduces her to the status of a submissive wife. Literature becomes her only refuge and only she can save herself.

Author Biography

Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, writer, translator, and activist. She is the author of The Gypsy Goddess, which sold 25,000 copies in the UK.