The Coin

A Novel

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Beschreibung

<b>Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize<br>Shortlisted for the Swansea Dylan Thomas Prize<br>Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize<br>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice<br> <br>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</b><br><br><i>The Coin’</i>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.<br><br>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 an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.<br><br>But America is stifling her—her willfulness, 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.<br><br>In enthralling, sensory prose,<i> The Coin</i> explores nature and civilization, beauty and justice, class and belonging—all while resisting easy moralizing. Provocative, wry, and inviting, <i>The Coin</i> marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.<br><br><b>"[A] smart, sneering novel of capital and its consequences . . . In a spiraling, hallucinogenic plot, <i>The Coin</i> draws a dotted line between the narrator’s grandmother’s garden in Palestine and a splatter of excrement on New York City subway tiles; between her grandfather’s birthplace of Bisan—'now a low-income town in Isra

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781646222100

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

214 x 152 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin LLC US