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
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