- Kenan Orhan on his novel of migration, nostalgia and Turkey's political crackdown

Kenan Orhan on his Booker Prize longlisted novel “The Renovation” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

The novel tells the story of a woman who has recently moved with her family from Turkey to a small town in Italy, where one day she discovers that her bathroom has been re-modelled into a cell in Istanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison.

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