
The Flea Palace
by Elif Shafak
Title:
The Flea Palace
Author:
Elif Shafak
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
448 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780241201909
EAN:
9780241201909
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
432
Dimensions (mm):
130 x 198 x 32
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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 naïve 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''S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***




















