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The Renovation
Kenan Orhan
A woman finds that her bathroom has been remodelled into a prison cell, with herself as the inmate. Kenan Orhan's surreal debut is a novel of exile, grief, memory and migration.
GenreLiterary fiction
Vivek’s Notes
One of the many debut novelists on this year's Booker longlist. A woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodelled into a prison cell, where she is an unlikely inmate, in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory and migration.
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