Opis: The Coin - Yasmin Zaher

The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start.

In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags.

But America is stifling her - her wilfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness and the narrator unravels spectacularly.

In enthralling, sensory prose, The Coin explores nature and civilisation, beauty and justice, class and belonging - all while resisting easy moralising. Provocative, wry and inviting, The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.

Szczegóły: The Coin - Yasmin Zaher

Tytuł: The Coin
Autor: Yasmin Zaher
Wydawnictwo: Footnote Press
ISBN: 9781804441367
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2024
Ilość stron: 228
Format: 13.0x19.5cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.176 kg

Recenzje: The Coin - Yasmin Zaher