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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 naive 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).

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Flea Palace
• Author: SHAFAK ELIF
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9780241201909
• ISBN: 9780241201909
• ID: 09109262
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 198 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. April 2015

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