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The Flea Palace
The Flea Palace

The Flea Palace

FICTION

448 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $16.95 (US $16.95)

Publication Date: May 2016

ISBN 9780241201909

Rights: US

Penguin UK (May 2016)
Viking

Price: $16.95
 
 

Overview

Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 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. From the author of The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love.

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 trash at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth. By turns comic and tragic, this is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.

Author Biography

Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Critics have acclaimed her as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature in both Turkish and English. Her novels include The Architect's Apprentice, The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages.