{"product_id":"the-renovation-a-novel-by-kenan-orhan","title":"The Renovation: A Novel by Kenan Orhan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she tries and fails to conceal the 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis slender, disquieting first novel 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAWARDS\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2026 Man Booker Award - Nominee long-listed\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2026 National Book Awards - Longlist long-listed\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581059199063,"sku":"9780374609429","price":38.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/6488\/2007\/files\/m_10_fc7f75f3-749f-48f9-9a21-3b7e6b57e2a4.jpg?v=1793216993","url":"https:\/\/nottawacottagebookstore.ca\/products\/the-renovation-a-novel-by-kenan-orhan","provider":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}