{"product_id":"the-renovation-a-novel","title":"The Renovation: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his slender, disquieting first novel, Kenan Orhan tells a story of modern migration like no other. The Renovation is a tragic comedy of displacement, a story that remodels its own form to the dazzling inevitable end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kenan Orhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51971731095865,"sku":"9780374609429","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0936\/8833\/2601\/files\/9780374609429.jpg?v=1772126656","url":"https:\/\/rebellionbookstore.com\/products\/the-renovation-a-novel","provider":"Rebellion Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}