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

Kenan Orhan on his Booker Prize longlisted novel “The Renovation” (Penguin).

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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