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Cover: 9781804441367 | The Coin | Yasmin Zaher | Taschenbuch | 240 S. | Englisch | 2024
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The Coin
Taschenbuch von Yasmin Zaher
Sprache: Englisch

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A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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.
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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.
Über den Autor
Yasmin Zaher is a Palestinian writer and journalist. She got her [...]. in Biomedical Engineering at Yale University and an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, where she was advised by Katie Kitamura. She lives in Paris.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 240 S.
ISBN-13: 9781804441367
ISBN-10: 1804441368
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Zaher, Yasmin
Hersteller: Bonnier Books UK
Footnote Press
Maße: 194 x 127 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Yasmin Zaher
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2024
Gewicht: 0,176 kg
Artikel-ID: 129259416
Über den Autor
Yasmin Zaher is a Palestinian writer and journalist. She got her [...]. in Biomedical Engineering at Yale University and an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, where she was advised by Katie Kitamura. She lives in Paris.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 240 S.
ISBN-13: 9781804441367
ISBN-10: 1804441368
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Zaher, Yasmin
Hersteller: Bonnier Books UK
Footnote Press
Maße: 194 x 127 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Yasmin Zaher
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2024
Gewicht: 0,176 kg
Artikel-ID: 129259416
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