Tag: capitalism
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A new Beckett? Yasmin Zaher’s ‘The Coin’ and dispossession
Yasmin Zaher’s debut novel The Coin (Footnote Press, 2024) was praised by the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize jury for ‘dissect[ing] nature and civilisation, beauty and justice, class and belonging in a vivid exploration of identity and heritage’.1 It was the jury’s unanimous choice. In its depiction of the narrator’s life in New York, the city…