The Flea Palace (Paperback)
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The Flea Palace (Paperback)

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Paperback 448 Pages
Published: 02/04/2015
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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

*** ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241201909
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 314 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 26 mm

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“A wonderful book, beautifully articulated and a delightful read.”

The Flea Palace was the first of Shafak's books that I read, and I subsequently bought four more! It's a wonderful book, delightful to read and very cleverly written. Shafak brings each of the characters to... More

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