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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: applicant
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Koca, Nazli
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 250 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: A singular debut from an exciting new voice, The Applicant explores with scorching wit and startling brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman and emerging writer. It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her fate. Increasingly distant from what used to be at arm's reach-writerly ambitions, tight-knit friendships, a place to call home, Leyla attempts to find solace in the techno beats of Berlin's nightlife, with little success. Right as the clock winds down on the hold on her visa, Leyla meets a conservative Swedish tourist and, against her political convictions and better judgment, begins to fall in love, or something like it. Will she accept an IKEA life with the Volvo salesman and relinquish her creative dreams, or return to Turkey to her mother and sister, codependent and enmeshed, her father's ghost still haunting their lives? While she waits for the German court's verdict on her future, in the pages of her diary, Leyla begins to parse her unresolved past and untenable present. An indelible character at once precocious and imperiled, Leyla gives voice to the working-class and immigrant struggle to find safety, self-expression and happiness. The Applicant is an extraordinary dissection of a liminal life between borders and identities, an original and darkly funny debut.
  note: Nazlı Koca.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Berlin (Germany)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Students
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Women authors
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3611.O3356 A86 2023
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780802160546
  identifier: 0802160549
  identifier: 9780802160553
  identifier: 2022042879
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220906
    record change date: 20230504185432.0
    record identifier: in00004674775