The Renovation, (Paperback)

<p><b>A woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell--where she is an unlikely inmate--in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration. <br></b><br>In Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since leaving her native Istanbul, she's been unable to find a job--adrift, she becomes increasingly fixated on domestic improvement, specifically on the renovation of a second bathroom. When the work is completed, she enters and finds herself not in a bathroom but in a prison cell, and a Turkish one at that. </p><p>As she tries and fails to conceal the unfortunate discovery from her husband, she confronts the prison's other inhabitants--the buffoonish guards who refuse to believe her conundrum; the other women who begin filling the cells beyond hers--and the strange things that drift through it: the smell of the Bosporus, her mother's voice, calls to prayer . . . </p><p>Has she gone mad? Is she the victim of a terrible prank? Is it a portal, a dream, a simulation? As she burrows deeper into her cell, her life beyond it begins to fall apart--her husband disappears, her father's grip on reality loosens, political dictatorship threatens to destroy everything worth keeping. </p><p>In his slender, disquieting first novel, Kenan Orhan tells a story of modern migration like no other. <i>The Renovation</i> is a tragic comedy of displacement, a story that remodels its own form to the dazzling inevitable end.</p>

• The Renovation, (Paperback)
• Author: Picador USA
• ISBN: 9781250468598
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-02-09
• Page Count: 256