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'A masterpiece' Slavoj Zizek

'A filthy, elegant book' Raven Leilani

'Glamorous and sordid' Elif Batuman

'Chipping away at Western hegemony one scalped it-bag at a time' New York Times

'A brilliant, audacious, powerhouse of a novel ... deliciously unruly' Katie Kitamura

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 mind.

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 roo

The Coin

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'A masterpiece' Slavoj Zizek'A filthy, elegant book' Raven Leilani'Glamorous and sordid' Elif Batuman'Chipping away at Western hegemony one scalped it-bag... Read more

    Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
    Publication Date: 7/11/2024
    ISBN13: 9781804441374, 978-1804441374
    ISBN10: 1804441376

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    'A masterpiece' Slavoj Zizek

    'A filthy, elegant book' Raven Leilani

    'Glamorous and sordid' Elif Batuman

    'Chipping away at Western hegemony one scalped it-bag at a time' New York Times

    'A brilliant, audacious, powerhouse of a novel ... deliciously unruly' Katie Kitamura

    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 mind.

    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 roo

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