By turns comic and tragic, Elif Shafak's 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 garbage at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events
unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.
"An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif Shafak is
the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade" - Orhan Pamuk
"Hyper-active and hilarious" - Independent
Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has
been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph, Guardian and the New York Times and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000
viewers since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides her time
between Istanbul and London.
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