The Renovation: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026 - Couverture rigide

Orhan, Kenan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241745772 ISBN 13 : 9780241745779

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton, 2026

Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026

Guardian Top 10 Debut Novels of 2026

The Renovation is a playful and poignant portrait of one family caught in the tides of history, grappling with grief, exile, politics and the painful absurdity of love

Dilara is renovating her apartment. She wants a brand-new waterfall shower with massage jets; she wants a marble bench and a double vanity unit. But when the renovation is done, she discovers a problem. Where the bathroom should be, the workmen have instead built a Turkish prison cell.

At first she is outraged. Is it a prank? A mistake? A veiled threat? 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 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 prison guards going about their work. Through the cell walls, she hears Turkish prisoners pacing, rustling, talking in their sleep. And in the strange, impossible air of the cell itself, she smells the sesame scent of freshly baked simit bread, she tastes the fine dust of the Anatolian steppe on her tongue.

Dilara has no shortage of responsibilities, worries, real problems. She has a dying father, a highly neurotic husband, a dwindling savings account and no job. And yet she finds herself 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.

'A highly inventive debut novel about exile, fear and the ways political trauma follows people across borders' The Times

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kenan Orhan is a writer based in Kansas. His 2023 short story collection, I Am My Country, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and was longlisted for the Story Prize. His fiction appears in the Atlantic, Paris Review, Common and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. The Renovation is his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241745772
• ISBN 13: 9780241745779
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: The Random House Group Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk; ; One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens; London; SW11 7BW; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: The Random House Group Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk; ; One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens; London; SW11 7BW; Royaume-Uni