Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery.
By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is 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.
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 unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.
'Picaresque' Guardian
'Hyperactive and hilarious' Independent
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- Authors:
- Shafak, Elif
- Year Published:
- 2015
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780241201909
- Number of Pages:
- 448
- Publication Date:
- 02/04/2015
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:
- 02/04/2015
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780241201909