{"product_id":"the-renovation-kenan-orhan-9780241745786","title":"The Renovation (Kenan Orhan)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eTop 10 Debut Novels of 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Renovation\u003c\/i\u003e is a playful and poignant portrait of one family caught in the tides of history, grappling with grief, exile, politics and the painful absurdity of love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dilara is renovating her apartment. She wants a brand-new waterfall shower with massage jets; she wants a marble bench and a double vanity unit. But when the renovation is done, she discovers a problem. Where the bathroom should be, the workmen have instead built a Turkish prison cell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt first she is outraged. Is this a prank? A mistake? A veiled threat? Dilara's family are exiles - they left Turkey many years ago and have never been back. The last thing she wants is a piece of her homeland appearing uninvited in her new home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But as the weeks pass, her indignation gives way to curiosity. Beyond the cell door, she glimpses Turkish prison guards going about their work. Through the cell walls, she hears Turkish prisoners pacing, rustling, talking in their sleep. And in the strange, impossible air of the cell itself, she smells the sesame scent of freshly baked simit bread, she tastes the fine dust of the Anatolian steppe on her tongue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDilara has no shortage of responsibilities, worries, \u003ci\u003ereal \u003c\/i\u003eproblems. She has a dying father, a highly neurotic husband, a dwindling savings account and no job. And yet she finds herself drawn back again and again to the mysterious prison cell, and through it to a city that once belonged to her - to the salt wind off the Marmara, the sky full of gulls and domes and minarets - back to Istanbul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A highly inventive debut novel about exile, fear and the ways political trauma follows people across borders' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKenan Orhan \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer based in Kansas. His first story collection, \u003ci\u003eI Am My Country\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize in 2024. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Renovation, \u003c\/i\u003ewas longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2026. His fiction appears in the\u003ci\u003e Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCommon\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade paperback (UK), Englisch, 256 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65926036914525,"sku":"K010046309","price":15.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1004630900001A.jpg?v=1789458526","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-renovation-kenan-orhan-9780241745786","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}