The Flea Palace - Softcover

Shafak, Elif

3.39

6,844 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141048956 ISBN 13: 9780141048956

Publisher: Viking, 2010

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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 na�ve 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 has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in both English and Turkish contemporary literature; her novels, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, The Gaze and Honour, are consistently at the top of bestseller lists across the globe. Elif Shafak's examination of national identity, The Happiness of Blond People is available as part of the Penguin Specials series - a digital only series of shorts designed with commuters in mind.

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Review:

Hyper-active and hilarious (Independent)

An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade (Orhan Pamuk)

Picaresque (Guardian)

A gem of a novel (Waterstone's Waterstone's)

Wonderful (Bookseller Bookseller)

Hyper-active and hilarious (Independent Independent)

An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade (Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk)

Picaresque (Guardian Guardian)

From the Back Cover:

Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

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 na�ve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the garbage at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.

'Picaresque' The Guardian

'Hyper-active and hilarious' Independent

Translated from the Turkish by Muge Gocek

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