The Applicant Audiobook Summary
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 politically conservative Swedish tourist and–against her leftist 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?
In the pages of her diary, while she waits for the German court’s verdict on her future, Leyla begins to parse her unresolved past and untenable present. With scorching wit and startling brevity, Leyla gives voice to the working-class
immigrant struggle to find safety, self-expression, and happiness. The Applicant is an extraordinary dissection of a liminal life between borders and identities, an indelible and darkly funny debut.
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About the Author(s) of The Applicant
Nazli Koca is the author of The Applicant
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The Applicant Full Details
Length | 5 hours 47 minutes |
Author | Nazli Koca |
Category | |
Publisher | Recorded Books, Inc. |
Release date | February 14, 2023 |
ISBN | 9781705090824 |
Additional info
The publisher of the The Applicant is Recorded Books, Inc.. The imprint is Recorded Books, Inc.. It is supplied by Recorded Books, Inc.. The ISBN-13 is 9781705090824.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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