The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy

The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy

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...?

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 *

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
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SKU	GOR006658616
ISBN 13	9781782391807
ISBN 10	1782391800
Title	The Gypsy Goddess
Author	Meena Kandasamy
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Atlantic Books
Year published	2015-04-02
Number of pages	304
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