Poets & Writers

Yasmin Zaher

INTRODUCED BY Ayşegül Savaş author of three books, most recently the novel The Anthropologists, forthcoming in July from Bloomsbury

I CAN still hear the visceral and deeply enigmatic voice of Yasmin Zaher’s debut novel, . What is the source of its powerful charge? The narrator is a young Palestinian woman living in New York City, teaching at a boys school. She thinks at length about fashion, her desires, the nooks and crannies of everyday life, and the many corners of her own memory; she is very humane, she is ruthlessly perceptive, she is teetering on madness. She

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