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 results in a soul-searching quest for truth. ‘Picaresque’ Guardian ‘Hyperactive and hilarious’ Independent.
THE FLEA PALACE
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Author: | ELIF SHAFAK |
ISBN: | 9780241201909 |
Publisher: | PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED (UK) |
Category: | GENERAL INTEREST | GENERAL FICTION |
Series: | |
Level: | None |
BookCover: | Paperback |
Number Of Pages: | 444 |
Volume Number | 0 |
Number Of Volumes | 0 |
Edition No: | 1 |