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The Flea Palace

Author: Elif Shafak
SKU: 9780241201909

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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 naive 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

  • Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 448 pages

ISBN : 9780241201909

Published : 2 Apr 2015

Author : Elif Shafak

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd

Size : 130 x 198 x 32 (mm)

Weight : 314g

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