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Yasmin Zaher

Yasmin Zaher

Yasmin Zaher Biography

Yasmin Zaher is a Palestinian journalist and writer born in 1991 in Jerusalem. The Coin is her first novel.



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Interview

The author in conversation with Juliette Jeffers at Interview Magazine about her debut novel, The Coin

JULIETTE JEFFERS: So you're in Paris right now?

YASMIN ZAHER: Yeah, I'm in Paris. Are you in New York?

JEFFERS: I am. I'm at the Interview office. You're good to get started?

ZAHER: Mm-hmm.

JEFFERS: I absolutely loved reading The Coin. I read it in three days. The narrator's voice is so compelling and the pace at which she moves through the world has so much energy. When I first started reading it, I felt a lot of parallels to American Psycho.

ZAHER: I was surprised that nobody until now has mentioned that.

JEFFERS: Really? They felt really connected to me. Was that a source of inspiration?

ZAHER: No, not at all. I watched the movie for the first time this year. But for years, my husband has been telling me that it reminds him of American Psycho. And then after watching it, I was like, "Yes, of course." I'm always surprised that more people don't make that comparison.

JEFFERS: Obviously, the narrator's a woman and she's not American. In American Psycho, Patrick Bateman functions as the embodiment of all of these materialistic and wealth-obsessed aspects of American culture. But for the narrator of The Coin, she's outside of it and feeling this landscape of New York act on her as soon as she enters it. But there's that similar obsession ...

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    Hildur Knútsdóttir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1984. She has lived in Spain, Germany, and Taiwan and studied literature and creative writing at The University of Iceland. She writes fiction both for ... (more)

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