{"product_id":"9781250468598","title":"The Renovation","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Entershine Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":50651589017839,"sku":"9781250468598","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0559\/3877\/7237\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a04af34e-188a-4230-b9e2-63207b751acc.jpg?v=1788216278","url":"https:\/\/www.entershinebookshop.ca\/products\/9781250468598","provider":"Entershine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}