{"product_id":"9781804441893","title":"The Coin : Shortlisted for the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Zaher, Yasmin \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/05\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781804441893,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN DAZED, DEBUTIFUL AND THE INDEPENDENT | LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE FOR FICTION'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 TimesA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55382077342069,"sku":"9781804441893","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781804441893.jpg?v=1747387877","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781804441893","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}