The Flea Palace
Author(s): Elif Shafak
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 garbage at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.
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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
Elif Shafak is one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken novelists. She was born in 1971 and is the author of six novels, most recently The Forty Rules of Love, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Saint of Incipient Insanities and The Gaze, and one work of non-fiction. She teaches at the University of Arizona and divides her time between the US and Istanbul.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Viking
- : 0.298
- : 01 November 2010
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2010
- : books
Special Fields
- : 448
- : 894.3533
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Elif Shafak