Imprint: Penguin
Published: 02/04/2015
ISBN: 9780241201909
Length: 448 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
Weight: 309g
RRP: £8.99
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
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 02/04/2015
ISBN: 9780241201909
Length: 448 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
Weight: 309g
RRP: £8.99