Description
The provocative debut by the Women's Fiction Prize 2018-shortlisted author of When I Hit You.
When women take to protest, there is no looking back. Sometimes it is over working conditions, other times, perhaps, a strike for higher wages. And so, in a hungry, back-broken community of villages in Tamil Nadu, a group of rural workers begin to defy their landlords. The landlords, in turn, vow to violently crush them. But these punishments only serve to strengthen the villagers' resistance - after all, when starvation is the only option, what else is there to lose...?
A mighty thunderclap of a novel, The Gypsy Goddess is set to launch Meena Kandasamy as a brazen, inventive, provocative star
About the Author
Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), and the critically acclaimed novel, Gypsy Goddess. She currently lives in East London.
www.meenakandasamy.com
meenu.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/meenakandasamy
facebook.com/ms.militancy
youtube.com/user/msmilitancy
Reviews
Dazzling, maddening, often hilarious * The Times *
Powerful, lyrical, radical * Guardian *
A novel of unmistakable fury * Independent *
One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable of polemicists -- Claire Armistead * Observer *
Book Information
ISBN 9781782391807
Author Meena Kandasamy
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publisher Atlantic Books
Weight(grams) 215g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm
