{"product_id":"the-renovation-by-kenan-orhan","title":"The Renovation by Kenan Orhan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Book Club Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenan Orhan\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003edebut 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\u003eis his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52789656125725,"sku":"9780374609429","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/5897\/files\/Screenshot2026-08-18at5.03.01pm_e31c9dfe-9033-4271-893d-8ccfc7e6ca0e.png?v=1787241156","url":"https:\/\/www.middleeastbooks.com\/products\/the-renovation-by-kenan-orhan","provider":"Middle East Books and More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}