THE FLEA PALACE

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