A superb first novel, impressive on every level... At once an urgent allegory about what it is to live in exile, its equally a powerful, visceral and heartbreakingly uncompromising portrait of dementia * Daily Mail * A haunting meditation on memory and displacement that reconsiders the meaning of liberation * New Yorker * Addictive and chilling, yet so sensitive, so beautifully told like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodóvar I couldnt put it down and I didnt want it to end. Kenan Orhan is a truly gifted writer, drawing us down into a tunnel of memory and madness -- Avni Doshi, author of 'Burnt Sugar' Truly original, this debut novel grips from start to finish * Elle * A surreal novel of migration and memory [ which] follows Orhans celebrated 2023 story collection * Guardian * Surreal, mysterious, engrossing... A domestic drama shaped by the political turbulence of the Erdogan era * Mail on Sunday * Elegant, propulsive and wholly original, The Renovation is a profound meditation on familial duties, memory, displacement and the devastating longing for a home that exists solely in the past. It will stay with me for a long time -- Cecile Pin, author of 'Wandering Souls' The Renovation brilliantly describes what its like for elsewhere to be here. An instant entry not just into the canon of migrant literature but into the literature of now -- Isabel Waidner, author of 'Sterling Karat Gold' Written with a slyly comic touch, The Renovation has at its heart an unexpected and powerfully charged emotional space. There are encounters between Dilara and her ageing, exiled father that will stay with me for a long time to come -- Chetna Maroo, author of 'Western Lane' Elegant, disarming, evocative... [ An] allegory about family, country, and the failure of memory * Kirkus *
