{"product_id":"the-coin-a-filthy-elegant-book-raven-leilani","title":"The Coin by Raven Leilani","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unravelling 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\u003e'A masterpiece' Slavoj Zizek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A filthy, elegant book' Raven Leilani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Glamorous and sordid' Elif Batuman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Chipping away at Western hegemony one scalped it-bag at a time' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A brilliant, audacious, powerhouse of a novel ... deliciously unruly' Katie Kitamura\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":52763690762506,"sku":"9781804441367","price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/98C6409B-0DCA-42B3-B26C-E5994073E53C.jpg?v=1784382747","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/the-coin-a-filthy-elegant-book-raven-leilani","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}