Flea Palace

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Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Elif Shafaks The Flea Palace" is a moving & highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building & who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic & 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 & their families. Theres a womanizing hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a clean freak & her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; & 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 & hilarious". (" Independent"). Elif Shafak has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in both English & Turkish contemporary literature; her novels " The Bastard of Istanbul" " The Forty Rules of Love" " The Gaze" & " Honour" are consistently at the top of bestseller lists across the globe. Elif Shafaks 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."