The applicant : a novel
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Published
New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition., First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
ISBN
9780802160546
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Ilsley Public Library - Adult Fiction | Fiction Koca | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction.
Cleaning personnel -- Fiction.
Diary fiction.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Emigration and immigration law -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Graduate students -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Novels.
Student passports -- Fiction.
Visas -- Fiction.
Women graduate students -- Fiction.
Women, Turkish -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction.
Cleaning personnel -- Fiction.
Diary fiction.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Emigration and immigration law -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Graduate students -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Novels.
Student passports -- Fiction.
Visas -- Fiction.
Women graduate students -- Fiction.
Women, Turkish -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction.
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Published
New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Edition
First edition., First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780802160546
Notes
Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Koca, N. (2023). The applicant: a novel (First edition.). Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Koca, Nazli. 2023. The Applicant: A Novel. Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Koca, Nazli. The Applicant: A Novel Grove Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Koca, Nazli. The Applicant: A Novel First edition., Grove Press, 2023.
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