The Applicant

Author: Nazli Koca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'An important and radical new literary voice' Elif Batuman It's 2017 and Leyla, a leftwing Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel in order to stay afloat while awaiting a verdict on her visa status. Having failed her master's thesis and sued the German university over its decision, she is on the verge of losing her student visa and being forced to return to...Read more