The Coin
Winner of the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize
by Yasmin Zaher
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Pub Date 11 Jul 2024 | Archive Date 17 Aug 2024
Bonnier | Footnote Press
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Description
Hotly awaited debut from an exciting new voice. Billed as a 'most anticipated Book of the Year' by multiple media platforms in the US including Literary Hub, Vulture, Seattle Times, among...
Advance Praise
Yasmin Zaher's The Coin does much more than meet the highest standards of literature: it sets its own standards...The Coin is not a wonderful beginning that promises masterpieces to come - it already is a masterpiece -- Slavoj Zizek
The Coin is a filthy, elegant book, keen on the fixations that overtake the body and upend a life -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster
I loved this bonkers novel. I was hooked by the voice, and mesmerized by the glamorous and sordid hijinks. I have never read such a strange and recognizable representation of post-2016 New York City, its luxury and squalor. Zaher is a writer to watch -- Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The Idiot
The Coin is a brilliant, audacious, powerhouse of a novel. A story of obsession and appetite, politics and class, it is deliciously unruly. An exceptional debut by an outrageous new talent -- Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies and A Separation
In her debut novel, Zaher draws a Venn diagram of the glamorously neurotic and the politically oppressed, then sets her protagonist spinning in that maddening little overlap -- Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture
A very stylish novel that manages to broach class and statelessness with tact and humor, while also touching on beauty, sex, love and the nature of civilization itself, all from a Palestinian debut novelist -- Literary Hub
Yasmin Zaher must have used electric ink to write this book. It is charged with such strangeness and humor; it glows with disobedience. A marvelous novel -- Aysegül Savas, author of White on White and Walking on the Ceiling
The Coin is a taut, caustic wonder. Like Jean Rhys, Yasmin Zaher captures the outrageous loneliness of contemporary life, the gradual and total displacement of the human heart. This is a novel of wealth, filth, beauty, and grief told in clarion prose and with unbearable suspense. I was in its clutches from the first page -- Hilary Leichter, author of Terrace Story and Temporary
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format | 
| ISBN | 9781804441374 | 
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) | 
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