A Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar

A Coin in Nine Hands

Marguerite Yourcenar with Dori Katz

184 pages first pub 1934 (editions)

fiction reflective slow-paced
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During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people—including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each los...

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