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03095aam a22004578i 4500 001 9F737620A45911EDA94333522DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230204010026 008 220906s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022042879 020 $a 0802160549 020 $a 9780802160546 035 $a (OCoLC)1343870657 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d LJW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3611.O3356 $b A86 2023 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20220906 100 1 $a Koca, Nazli, $e author. 245 14 $a The applicant : $b a novel / $c Nazlı Koca. 250 $a First edition. 250 $a First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Grove Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 250 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "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 twentysomething 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 655 7 $a Diary fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726582 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Diary fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Koca, Nazli. $t Applicant. $b First edition $d New York : Grove Press, 2023 $z 9780802160553 $w (DLC) 2022042880 941 $a 9 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20231114010510.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025015454.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20230922010307.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011145.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230404010417.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230307010632.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230302010819.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230207010131.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230204010529.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9F737620A45911EDA94333522DECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search