Book description
By turns comic and tragic, Elif Shafak's 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 na ve 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.
"An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif
Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last
decade" - Orhan Pamuk
"Hyper-active and hilarious" - Independent
Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of
Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love and is the most widely
read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more
than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph,
Guardian and the New York Times and her TED talk on
the politics of fiction has received 500 000 viewers since July 2010.
She is married with two children and divides her time between Istanbul
and London.
Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of
The Bastard of Istanbul
and
The Forty Rules of Love
and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has
been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor
for
The Telegraph
,
Guardian
and the
New York Times
and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000
viewers since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides
her time between Istanbul and London.
