The Renovation (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Kenan Orhan | knygos.lt

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Dilara's father is disappearing. Dementia erases a little more of him each day. Dilara insists he move in with her, taking on the role of his full-time carer, even hiring builders to adapt her home to his needs. But when the renovation is done, she discovers a new problem: where the bathroom should be, the workmen have instead built a Turkish prison cell.

This is a problem for several reasons. One, Dilara left Turkey under a dark cloud seven years ago and prefers not to think about it. Two, Dilara has her hands full with her dying father and has no time for absurdist pranks. And three, now Dilara has no bathroom.

To make matters both stranger and worse, she quickly realises that this prison cell is no fake. It is a real prison cell in the middle of a prison in the middle of Istanbul. It is an impossible portal from Italy to Turkey. It is a mystery that she wants no part of. And she can't stop thinking about it.

From this surreal and tragicomic premise unfolds a poignant, wise and richly layered novel about family and care, homesickness and grief, about a shining city on the sea, about the politics of contemporary Europe and the rising tide of history which creeps up around ordinary people, threatening to wash them away.