Summary
By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by a powerful 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 naive mistress whose shado…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241201909 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024120190X |
| Author: | Elif Shafak |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 315g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Picaresque charm with a touch of magic realism * Independent *An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty … Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decadePicaresque * Guardian *A gem of a novel * Waterstones *Wonderful * Bookseller *Ms Shafak is well set to challenge Mr Pamuk as Turkey’s foremost contemporary novelist * Economist *
About The Author
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-seven languages. The author of twenty books, fourteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak’s previous novel, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, was the UK’s bestselling literary hardback novel of 2025, selling over 500,000 copies. Her work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, amongst others, and she is currently nominated for ‘Author of the Year’ at the British Book Awards. Elif Shafak was appointed President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2025. Her books have sold several million copies worldwide.
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