{"product_id":"the-renovation-9780374609429","title":"The Renovation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenan Orhan\u003c\/b\u003e's debut collection, \u003ci\u003eI Am My Country: And Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize and was long-listed for the Story Prize. His fiction appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Common\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere and has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Renovation\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52000320225554,"sku":"9780374609429","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a75f99a7-b6b7-400d-9671-42983dfa4685.jpg?v=1770195294","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-renovation-9780374609429","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}