{"product_id":"the-renovation-kenan-orhan-hardcover","title":"The Renovation -- Kenan Orhan, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\nIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his slender, disquieting first novel, Kenan Orhan tells a story of modern migration like no other. \u003ci\u003eThe Renovation\u003c\/i\u003e is a tragic comedy of displacement, a story that remodels its own form to the dazzling inevitable end.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kenan Orhan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.3\" H x 5.5\" L x 1.2\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374609429\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50755924885808,"sku":"9780374609429","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780374609429_871840e4-452d-40cd-9943-290154fbdcb9.jpg?v=1775254760","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/the-renovation-kenan-orhan-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}