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Kenan Orhan is a writer based in Kansas. His 2023 short story collection, I Am My Country, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and was longlisted for the Story Prize. His fiction appears in the Atlantic, Paris Review, Common and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. The Renovation is his first novel.
Truly original, this debut novel grips from start to finish * Elle * A surreal novel of migration and memory [which] follows Orhan’s celebrated 2023 story collection * Guardian * Addictive and chilling, yet so sensitive, so beautifully told – like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodóvar – I couldn’t put it down and I didn’t 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' 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 it’s 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 * Tender [and] astonishing * Booklist *
