Aravind Jayan is a young writer from India.
His novel Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors describes the personal and familial catastrophes that unfold after a young man and his girlfriend discover an explicit video of themselves circulating online.
At the Guardian Jayan tagged ten top books on modern India, including:
When I Hit You by Meena KandasamyRead about another entry on the list.
Our narrator is trapped in a terrifying marriage. To the outside world, her husband is a university professor and an intellectualcommunist. At home he’s a dictator – physically and mentally torturing his new wife in the name of re-education. But the narrator is determined not to break, even as she is battered. What we get is what the subtitle – Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife – promises: a fiercely gripping portrait of herself, marriage, abuse and male ego told in the most clinical, acerbic and relentless voice.
--Marshal Zeringue
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