{"product_id":"9780374609429","title":"The Renovation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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.\u003c\/b\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\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis slender, disquieting first novel tells a story of modern migration like no other. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Renovation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a tragic comedy of displacement, a story that remodels its own form to the dazzling inevitable end.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orhan, Kenan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48651461886206,"sku":"9780374609429","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/The_Renovation.png?v=1785253272","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9780374609429","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}