Yasmin Zaher
Yasmin Zaher is a Palestinian journalist and writer whose first novel follows a young Palestinian woman teaching in New York as she navigates money, status, sexuality, and a restless relationship to home. Zaher’s surreal, sharply observant approach makes The Coin a route into questions of class and material culture as much as a character study.
Life information: Living Palestinian journalist and writer; publisher information states she was born in Jerusalem in 1991 and is based in Paris. This birth year is supplied by her publisher.
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Yasmin Zaher is a Palestinian journalist and writer whose first novel follows a young Palestinian woman teaching in New York as she navigates money, status, sexuality, and a restless relationship to home. Zaher’s surreal, sharply observant approach makes The Coin a route into questions of class and material culture as much as a character study.
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The Coin
A formally restless debut about a Palestinian journalist teaching in New York, drawn into the world of luxury resale and the contradictions of wealth, body, and belonging. Winner of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.
Catapult · ISBN 9781646222100
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