Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Flea Palace, The
Author: SHAFAK ELIF
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/06/2015
Imprint: VIKING
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
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 garbage at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.
Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
‘Picaresque.’ The Guardian
‘Hyper-active and hilarious . . . Shafak’s literary success and journalism mark her out as a figurehead of a new generation of writers.’ Independent
Translated from the Turkish by Muge Gocek
ISBN: 9780241201909
Pages: 448