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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...?



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      Publisher: Atlantic Books
      Publication Date: 02/04/2015
      ISBN13: 9781782391807, 978-1782391807
      ISBN10: 1782391800
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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...?



      Trade Review
      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 *

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