{"product_id":"the-renovation","title":"The Renovation","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","brand":"Orhan, Kenan","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":52723183943896,"sku":"9780374609429","price":38.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9780374609429.jpg?v=1792519089","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/the-renovation","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}