{"product_id":"the-coin-yasmin-zaher-9781804441893","title":"The Coin","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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":"Yasmin Zaher","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47794179965171,"sku":"9781804441893","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781804441893.jpg?v=1761592526","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-coin-yasmin-zaher-9781804441893","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}