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The Renovation by Kenan Orhan SIGNED COPYOne of the Guardians top 10 debuts to watch out for in 2026 A dazzlingly original new voice in literary fiction for fans of Ali Smith, Mohsin Hamid and Elif Shafak The Renovation is a heart breaking portrait of one family caught in the tides of history, grappling with grief, exile, politics and the painful absurdity of love Dilaras father is disappearing. He has dementia and the disease steals a little more of him each day. Dilara has persuaded him to
One of the Guardians top 10 debuts to watch out for in 2026
A dazzlingly original new voice in literary fiction for fans of Ali Smith, Mohsin Hamid and Elif Shafak
The Renovation is a heart-breaking portrait of one family caught in the tides of history, grappling with grief, exile, politics and the painful absurdity of love
Dilara’s father is disappearing. He has dementia and the disease steals a little more of him each day. Dilara has persuaded him to move in with her, hiring builders to adapt her apartment in preparation, but when the renovation is complete she discovers a big problem.
Instead of a new bathroom, the builders have installed a Turkish prison cell. At first she is outraged. There has surely been some mistake.
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 estranged homeland appearing uninvited in her new home. But as the weeks pass, her indignation gives way to curiosity.
Beyond the cell door, she glimpses Turkish guards going about their work. Through the cell walls, she hears Turkish prisoners murmuring, rustling, crying out in their sleep. And in the strange, impossible air of the cell itself, she smells the sesame scent of freshly baked simit, she tastes the fine dust of the Anatolian steppe on her tongue.
Even as she struggles to care for her father, to keep the family finances afloat and stop the wheels coming off her marriage, Dilara is 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.
Format:Hardback 256 pages
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Hamish Hamilton Ltd
ISBN:9780241745779
Published:26 Mar 2026
Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, Coping with old age
Weight:358g
Dimensions:145 x 224 x 27 (mm)
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