The renovation a novel
"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"--
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "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 and finds herself not in a bathroom but in a prison cell, and a Turkish one at that. As 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 the smell of the Bosporus, her mother's voice, calls to prayer ... Has 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 239 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374609429 037460942X |
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