{"product_id":"9780374609429","title":"The Renovation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\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\/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\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover | 256 pages | 5.65\" x 8.5\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kenan Orhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68043511070952,"sku":"9780374609429x","price":38.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_20c6d810-409d-4f7a-be53-aa75ba02f47d.jpg?v=1793222067","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9780374609429","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}