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The Renovation: A Novel
By Kenan Orhan
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Living in exile, Dilara feels the constant pull of her homeland, until an unexpected prison materializes within her home in this haunting tale steeped in magical realism.
A 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.
In 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 a...
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Living in exile, Dilara feels the constant pull of her homeland, until an unexpected prison materializes within her home in this haunting tale steeped in magical realism. Read n for an exclusive essay from author Kenan Orhan on writing The Renovation. Miraculously, the month before my story collection was to be published, The Renovation fell […]
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