The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
Anna and Geoff discuss the news that Sally Rooney's books are selling out ahead of the ban in the UK after her publisher Faber announced it would no longer supply her books there.
Our book of the week is THE RENOVATION by Kenan Orhan. This debut novel centres on Dilara, a Turkish exile living in Italy. Her bathroom turns into a Turkish prison cell in this Kafka-esque story. She is also caring for her father, who was a fiercely intelligent and outspoken professor and now has Alzheimer's. The Renovation has been long listed for the National Book Awards and the Booker Prize. We are both averse…
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