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Informationen zum Autor Nazli Koca is a writer and poet from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. She has lived in Berlin and now lives in New York City. She is the recipient of grants from the Nanovic Institute, Soham Dance Space, and United States Artists. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, BookForum, Second Factory, The Chicago Review of Books, and books without covers, among other outlets. The Applicant is her first novel. Klappentext 'A virtuosic, visceral meditation on borders, in-betweenness, and identity, and a testament to why we read in the first place: to laugh, to be devastated. With exhilarating and eviscerating wit, Nazli Koca is a daring and provocative prose stylist with heart' Patrick Cottrell, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace 'An exceptional novel . . . Koca is her own (displaced) Dante, guiding herself and her readers through a lively urban nocturne constellated with literature and alight with that most vital and phenomenal of currents: youth' Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne 'Nazli Koca has the rare gift of making you laugh and weep within a page. Bold and original, the writing pulses with techno, soap operas, and late-night banter. But like the silence between two beats, its profound wisdom and unbearable tenderness reverberate' Sanaë Lemoine, author of The Margot Affair 'An exuberant debut from Nazli Koca, who has something to declare about both the boldness and the fear gripping the young navigating the cruel farce of our modern world' Manuel Muñoz, author of The Consequences Vorwort Koca's debut novel centers on a young Turkish woman who finds herself at a crossroads, caught between the cogs of Germany's immigration system and her complicated family back home. Zusammenfassung Koca's debut novel centers on a young Turkish woman who finds herself at a crossroads, caught between the cogs of Germany's immigration system and her complicated family back home....
