The Flea Palace

Elif Shafak author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:2nd Apr '15

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By turns comic and tragic,The Flea Palaceis an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.

Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families. When the rubbish at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.

Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families.

There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a charmingly naïve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the rubbish at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfold that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.

By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by a powerful sense of social justice.

Picaresque charm with a touch of magic realism * Independent *
An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade
Picaresque * Guardian *
A gem of a novel * Waterstones *
Wonderful * Bookseller *
Ms Shafak is well set to challenge Mr Pamuk as Turkey's foremost contemporary novelist * Economist *

ISBN: 9780241201909

Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 26mm

Weight: 315g

448 pages