{"product_id":"book-pgaa","title":"The Renovation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\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 …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his slender, disquieting first novel, Kenan Orhan tells a story of modern migration like no other. \u003cem\u003eThe Renovation\u003c\/em\u003e is a tragic comedy of displacement, a story that remodels its own form to the dazzling inevitable end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67724837355824,"sku":"BDpgaa","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":67724837388592,"sku":"ZEpgaa","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":67724837421360,"sku":"ZMpgaa","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-pgaa","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}