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.
By:
Elif Shafak Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 199mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 311g ISBN:9780241201909 ISBN 10: 024120190X Pages: 448 Publication Date:24 June 2015 Recommended Age: From 0 years Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
