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·      The Applicant is inspired by Nazlı Koca’s own life -- she was born and raised on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, spent years of her young adulthood in Berlin, and now lives in the US. Nazlı brings a captivating new perspective to our often US-centric conversation around immigration.·      The Berlin setting of The Applicant is seedy, lively, cutting-edge, and irresistible.·      A literary and commercial deeply affecting debut at the...

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.

· The Applicant is inspired by Nazli Koca's own life -- she was born and raised on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, spent years of her young adulthood in Berlin, and now lives in the US. Nazli brings a captivating new perspective to our often US-centric conversation around immigration.· The Berlin setting of The Applicant is seedy, lively, cutting-edge, and irresistible.· A literary and commercial deeply affecting debut at the cutting edge o...

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 constel...

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. Quietly devastating, The Applicant left me with the most wonderful ache' Sanaë Lemoine, author of The Margot AffairIt's 2017 and Leyla, a leftwing Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin...